Proceed to the Route of Remembering

2024

CURRENT EXHIBITION

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  • Opening day: May 4, 2024 | 9 pm

  • May 4, 2024 - September 14, 2024

  • Lapa do Lobo Foundation

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The heart of this exhibition

We decided to approach the subject using our artistic horizon, articulating it from the theoretical side. In other words, what motivates this project are lived events and the possibility of keeping them present in a memory that can be thought of simultaneously from the side of the body, places, or objects through constructed visual images.

The heart of this exhibition/installation consists of various objects, images, and an audio and video installation divided into six experimental essays.

Exhibition presentation

António Olaio presented the exhibition. Video HD, 16:9, colour, sound, variable dimensions, 10’54’’

Luís António Umbelino presented the exhibition. Video HD, 16:9, colour, sound, variable dimensions, 17’50’’

Essay #1

Proceed to the route through the lines

  • Diary of a tree

  • First lines

“Ask a TREE. Each tree branch is a hand, reaching out to offer help”.

The roots sink into the earth, and from them, lines emerge that reproduce themselves across timeless spaces, in the reflection, you can see what was left behind. The direction of the gaze is reversed, and everything changes.

What eyes are these?
What body is this that ‘keeps’ lines and shadows in the dark after they disappear?


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
50 x 70 cm

Diary of a tree #1

Ask a LINE. The eyes open and close.

The scientific explanation of phototransduction is suspended, and fields are reproduced in our inner experience to lead to a new understanding about the lines of different contours that activate our memories in the presence of objects with sounds and aromas. These carry atmospheres with them.


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #1, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #2, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #3, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #4, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #5, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #6, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #7, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 × 22 cm

First lines #8, 2023


From the series: ”Proceed to the route through the lines”
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
16 x 22 cm

First lines #9, 2023

Essay #2

Cross the paths of strange atmosphere

  • Objects that active memories

  • Atmospheres

OBJECTS accompanied by atmospheres.

Objects accompanied by atmospheres of the past activate memory. At the moment, we remember another atmosphere, that of the present, which can alter post-events and vice versa.


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Object
Variable dimensions

Objects that active memories #1

Each object he collects is a place, a time, an ATMOSPHERE

“A world lost and found again” as Alexander Luria puts it.


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #2, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #12, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #11, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #9, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #7, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #13, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #14, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #10, 2023


From the series: ”Cross the path of strange atmosphere”
Photography
50 x 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Atmosphere #8, 2023

Essay #3

Follow the atmospheric absent body

  • Presence and absence: dialogues

  • Place where the sounds are defined (audio)

Presence and absence: dialogues

The issue of pre-sentence
The pre-sentence, says Martin-Heidegger in «Being and Time» (205:38-44):

“Presence is not just on entity that occurs among other entities […] Pre-sentence always understands itself based on its existence, from its own possibility of being or not being itself”.


From the series: ”Follow the atmospheric absent body”
Photography
50 x 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Presence and absence: dialogues #2, 2023


From the series: ”Follow the atmospheric absent body”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Presence and absence: dialogues #4, 2023


From the series: ”Follow the atmospheric absent body”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Presence and absence: dialogues #1, 2023


From the series: ”Follow the atmospheric absent body”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Dialogue between sounds and body #3, 2023

A place where the sounds are defined (audio)

[…] “O som que acompanha uma imagem assinala o ritmo com que se manifesta uma estranha presença do outro por toda a parte e em parte alguma” […]

Luis António Umbelino, Audio recordingin, «Memorabilia: o lado espacial da memória (na esteira de Merleau-Ponty)» p.93.


From the series: ”Follow the atmospheric absent body”
Audio
Audio recording, 15’52’’ (loop)

A place where sound is defined... in thought, 2024

This rehearsal is complemented by an audio recording presented in the main room, which is the result of sound collection and editing with the collaboration of João Ricardo. We've also added the musical themes, licensed by ArtList.io: Collection - Black Rain by Jimmy Svensson; Diversity - The Path Of The Himalayas by Maxime Herve; Waiting For The Dawn - Waiting For The Dawn by Salt Of The Sound; Thoughts In Motion - Thoughts In Motion by Tristan Barton; Revelations - Underscore, V.a by Tristan Barton. 

Essay #4

Cross the paths of strange atmosphere

  • Go to memory lane

  • Crystallization of memories


From the series: ”Go to memory lane”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

The movement of memory #1, 2024


From the series: ”Go to memory lane”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

The movement of memory #2, 2024


From the series: ”Go to memory lane”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

The movement of memory #3, 2024


From the series: ”Go to memory lane”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

The movement of memory #4, 2024

Crystallization of memories.

We present sixty-three slides (taken between 1977 and 2019), making up a lightbox measuring 50 × 50 cm

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #4
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #28
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #19
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #36
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #23
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #58
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #32
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #33
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #13
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #45
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #49
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024


From the series: ”Crystallisation of memories”
Photography/Slide #39
50 × 50 cm, framed, ed. unique

The movement of memory #5, 2024

Essay #5

Corpo desocupado

  • Clothing parts

  • Objects that active memories

  • The dance of the wheel (video)

Clothes are an unoccupied body.

Clothing is an unoccupied body, yet its shadow continues to conceal a presence.
The body has become invisible in the garment that has lost volume, but the limited amount of time that each body lived in each garment it inhabited remains in it. During that lifetime, what memory do we have of that body in someone else's body?


From the series: ”Corpo desocupado”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Corpo desocupado #3, 2023


From the series: ”Corpo desocupado”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Corpo desocupado #1, 2023


From the series: ”Corpo desocupado”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Corpo desocupado #2, 2023

Objects that have active memories.

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From the series: ”Corpo desocupado”
Photography
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. 1/12 + 3AP

Objects that have active memories #1, 2023

The Dance of the Wheel (video)

[…] “O caminho de campo (Heidegger) é lugar da eterna repetição” […]

[…] A “dança da roda” e também uma fórmula temporal, um eterno voltar em torno de si próprio […]

Byung-Chul Han, in, «O Aroma do tempo», pp 84-85


From the series: ”Corpo desocupado”
Video
Video HD, 16:9, color, sound variable dimensions, 4’22’’ (loop)

The dance of the wheel, 2024

Collaboration: Inesa Markava (performance) and Frederico Nunes (saxophone)

Essay #6

Ongoing repetitions in the return to

  • Ongoing repetitions

  • Other shadows

other shadows

Repetitions of lines.

Draw in charcoal in nine frames (with dimensions of 50 × 50 cm), framed by side frames.


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #1, 2023


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #2, 2023


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #3, 2023


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #4, 2023


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #5, 2023


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #6, 2023


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #7, 2023


From the series: ”Ongoing repetitions and Other shadows”
Charcoal and mixed media on paper
50 × 70 cm, framed, ed. single

Ongoing repetitions #9, 2023

Return to Other shadows.

A play of shadows, lines, and stains


From the series: ”Ongoing Repetitions and Other shadows”
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
40 × 50 cm, framed, ed. single

Return to other shadows #1, 2024


From the series: ”Ongoing Repetitions and Other shadows”
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
40 × 50 cm, framed, ed. single

Return to other shadows #2, 2024


From the series: ”Ongoing Repetitions and Other shadows”
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
40 × 50 cm, framed, ed. single

Return to other shadows #3, 2024


From the series: ”Ongoing Repetitions and Other shadows”
Acrylic and mixed media on paper
40 × 50 cm, framed, ed. single

Return to other shadows #4, 2024

Installation in Progress & Open Day

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