Route landscapes

2018 [August 16 – September 30]

Escada Gallery , UFSJ Cultural Center – São João Del Rei – MG – Brazil

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Paisagens Rotas is a visual research in drawing that begins with the exploration of different materials – charcoal, natural pigments, graphite, linseed oil, beeswax and paraffin. The use of these materials involves accidental and casual situations arising from alternative processes of application and fixation of these on the surface of blotting paper. The realization of Landscapes involves a great deal of uncertainty and provisionality generated by the characteristics of the chosen materials and the processes used.

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The name suggests the construction of a place of possible paths, as well as a place where
broken, broken, disconnected spaces are glimpsed, which indicate the existence of something that connects them. A space of broken memories, of the absence of meaning, or of a structure that only partially remains, in pieces, to be deciphered. Likewise, the name points to the possibility of traversing these spaces, through routes that cross this fragmented landscape in a metaphorical construction of thought itself.

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Amidst dense areas, without clear references that define distance, depth or rhythm, there is
the appearance of traces of another strain: various occasional marks and straight lines – which denote
the presence of a human frame of reference. Landmarks that delimit and lead, presenting possible reading planes in the image, becoming, consequently, tools that guide the gaze: they point to the existence of an undefined structure or that has lost a clear sense, like marks erased by time. Through these landmarks – in reality, in memory and in imagination – space
organizes itself.

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With the fictionalization of places and territories, in constant construction and transformation, the drawings
they open up as vectors for reflection on the geographic, historical and political space in which we are inserted. They point to the possibility of thinking about the construction of one's own imagery, inferring importance in the formulation of image making that takes place, both in relation to the act of drawing and
in the space opened up by the vision and elaboration that occur through the observer's gaze.

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This exhibition aims to discuss how the terrain's physical memory adds to individual memories
and collective, either through the construction of images - drawings - signs, which interconnect, or
in the dimensions of the natural landscape and in the presence of human interference in that landscape.