The façade Estamos no escuro [We are in the dark], imitating a neon light, made a comment on the political situation that the world was/is living. Because it was graphic – white sticker on black wall – and not neon, the information was always visually “on”, although off, since it is not light. The political meaning of the phrase gained another layer after the viewer saw the exhibition, because as the “subject” of the works passed through desire and sex, the neon could be read as the sign of a roadside motel and the “we are in the dark” as one of its bedrooms.
Made of iron, glass and mirror, the structures forming Autômatos, leading up to Komatuys’s Estrela Escura [Dark star], combines opposites such as containment and dispersion, passage and impediment, view and opacity, public and private. The installation was also presented during the Frestas Trienal de Artes, at Sesc Sorocaba, in 2017.
On Vermelho’s façade, Bacal scratched an ellipse into the wall highlighting the various narratives that the gallery has lodged over the years, revealing traces of more than one hundred projects that have occupied the façade. A copper band, used to trace the geometric shape suggesting the activation of this memory through its properties of electrical conductivity (copper has the highest conductivity of metals).
On Vermelho’s façade, Bacal scratched an elipse into the wall highlighting the various narratives that the gallery has lodged over the years, revealing traces of more than one hundred projects that have occupied the façade. A copper band, used to trace the geometric shape suggesting the activation of this memory through its properties of electrical conductivity (copper has the highest conductivity of metals)
On Vermelho’s façade, Bacal scratched an elipse into the wall highlighting the various narratives that the gallery has lodged over the years, revealing traces of more than one hundred projects that have occupied the façade. A copper band, used to trace the geometric shape suggesting the activation of this memory through its properties of electrical conductivity (copper has the highest conductivity of metals)