trip to the other side of the night

2017

Charcoal, natural pigment, graphite, crayon, dry pastel, oil pastel and paraffin on 80g blotting paper.

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Series of twenty-one (21) works: 38.5 x 32 cm each.

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Triptych: 28.5 x 57.5 cm each.

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Multiple (04): 28.5 x 28.5 cm each.

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A trip to the other side of the night is an unfolding of the work process initiated in the Paisagens Rotas series. The surface materiality, weight and thickness of the paper give way to a thinner, less opaque support, which is combined with a change in the way of drawing and in the material used for applying and fixing pigment and charcoal. The drawings shrink in size, become sorts of windows to parts of hidden landscapes. The strongest presence of the stains is evidenced in the place
of construction of spaces.

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The work that was developed on the image, on the surface of the drawing, expands onto the object.
From the object, it expands to create a space that involves the body: a place made too
of images that proposes its constant construction and transformation. A complex of images,
a space of uncertainty, indeterminacy and suspension of reason, for which the visitor
is invited to become an integral part of the construction. By expanding the possibilities
of assembly and modification of the works through their handling by the visitors, it is proposed
the realization of the impossibility of a single, final sense, the impossibility of absolute certainty and truth.

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These are works that suggest two different ways of looking: on the one hand, bringing the observer
closer, it proposes you to experience its density, its texture and the notion of part of the work
as an all-reduced; on the other, they suggest a distant look, to contemplate each work
in its entirety and, at the same time, observe each one as a possible fraction of a created plot
together with the others.