2023Sun salt shine shinesgroup show at vagacurated by filipa rocha nunes
“(...) We start on the ground. Sun Salt Shine Shines rises
like the sun in height.
be extra careful with heartfires, by Inês Brites,
opens the room, defining its limits. 33 towels protect the
baseboards of the House from an orange fire that can be seen
on the horizon or a hellish deluge that the worn-out floors can no
longer contain. In the imminence of brutality, it is the poetry of
details that keeps the body closed, and in the chromatic cadence
of the rigid towels, companions, it is possible to contemplate the
landscape. If there were gentle warnings of uncertain situations in
the artist's solo exhibition Há mais água a entrar no solo (2021),
now there is a decision of containance that sustains the collective's
emotions, like the backbone of the reunion of these works, an
impermeable network of affections. Towels stiffened by wax mark
the gestures of caring practices. (...)” full text
06.05.23 — 08.07.23
photos mariana lopes