Ex-Patria
Sahara’s desert sand collected 1.200 km away from its origins and felt
135 x 255 cm
2022
The sands of the Sahara invaded the Iberian Peninsula and transformed everyday experience into a complete chromatic immersion in warm tones. In a world suddenly inhabited by particles that had traveled many kilometers, flying like migratory birds that do not need to land.
I imagine the immigrant boats that crossed the Mediterranean coming from the same origin as those sands. Everyone yearns hopefully for a place to start over, a deposition, a sedimentation of life, particle by particle.
A traveler of the 1,200 km that separate point A from point B, once a nomad, now deposited, established. Thus, the work Ex-Patria is constructed, in the attribution of meanings to the bodies in search of a new place, in comparison with the artist's own history of exile, an adopted son of another country, uprooted but still welcomed.
I imagine the immigrant boats that crossed the Mediterranean coming from the same origin as those sands. Everyone yearns hopefully for a place to start over, a deposition, a sedimentation of life, particle by particle.
A traveler of the 1,200 km that separate point A from point B, once a nomad, now deposited, established. Thus, the work Ex-Patria is constructed, in the attribution of meanings to the bodies in search of a new place, in comparison with the artist's own history of exile, an adopted son of another country, uprooted but still welcomed.
Ex-Patria
areias do deserto do Sahara coletadas a 1.200 km de suas origens e feltro
35 x 255 cm
2022
Areias do Sahara invadiam a península ibérica e transformavam a experiência cotidiana em completa imersão cromática em tons quentes. Num mundo subitamente habitado por partículas que tinham percorrido muitos quilômetros, voando como aves migratórias que não precisam pousar.
Imagino os barcos de imigrantes que atravessavam o Mediterrâneo vindos da mesma origem que aquelas areias. Todos anseiam esperançosamente um lugar para um recomeço, uma deposição, uma sedimentação da vida, partícula por partícula.
Viajante dos 1.200 km que separam o ponto A do ponto B, uma vez nômada, agora depositada, estabelecida. Assim, a obra Ex-Patria constróe-se, na atribuição dos significados dos corpos em busca de um novo sítio, na comparação com a própria história de desterro do artista, filho adotado de um outro país, desenraizado mas ainda sim, acolhido.