Under the sun: snail trails and other stories

The chronologies of humanity advance and divide themselves between encounters and creations.

We encounter objects, people, elements, fragments, and we create our relationships with them. In turn, these relationships expand through the faculties of imagination and creation.

In the movement that begins with observation, passing through collection (whether material, intellectual, or spiritual) and culminating in the production of something else, we activate mechanisms of power over the world. We configure possibilities for new ways of existing and reinterpreting, as if we could say (re)read, (re)listen, and (re)act on what informs and motivates us.

Under the signs of the Barreiro industrial park and its ruins, histories and mappings, the works in this exhibition reconnect with this territory from points of view based on different artistic practices that reanimate elements and conjecture around them.

The tension between the natural and the artificial, what is found and what is repositioned and worked on, is fertile ground for sowing fictions.

In this harvest, we can design new windows and openings that offer other answers, other visions, other perspectives that can reorient and help us resist and revolutionise what is degrading and becoming toxic.

The industrial park, as a landscape, a place of snails and other resistant figures and an abandoned project, emerges as a common starting point for Azul, Colm, Emory, Heidi, Jemima, Mariana, Nilton, Nosh and Sara.

Note
caput mortuum, a reddish pigment derived from iron oxide, is also an expression used to describe something that remains but has no value.