Playing cards, laser cutting and wood
variable Dimensions
Ás de Espadas [Ace of Spades] (2011)count on five different airplane models whose parts were laser-cut on playing cards, assembled, and displayed atop the same cards. There is a model for each of the four suits and one for the jokers. The airplanes are divided into two groups – red deck/blue deck – and arranged face to face on two wooden tables.
Ace of Spades,2011
Playing cards, laser cutting and wood
variable Dimensions
Ixodidae, 2010-2011
Motors, control box, hammers in carbon steel and electrical cables
Variable dimensions
Ixodidae, a scientific term for a tick, in a certain sense duplicates the action of the parasite from which it borrows its title. In the installation, a motion-detecting control box was connected to twelve electric hammers that are activated based on the viewer’s presence. Arranged throughout the exhibition space, when the electric hammers are activated they damage the walls and the floor according to the number of observers and the length of their stay.
Ixodidae, 2010-2011
Motors, control box, hammers in carbon steel and electrical cables
Variable dimensions
Score, 2010-2011
Electric train, rails, rods, bottles, cups and wooden
variable dimensions
Partitura [Musical Score] , Cadu has arranged bottles, jars, cups and other utensils along a model train track. Rods projecting from the train cars strike these items, producing notes that are part of the musical composition.
Score, 2010-2011
Electric train, rails, rods, bottles, cups and wooden
Variable dimensions
Nantucket Island 1, 2010/2011
Oil on paper
200 cm x 174 cm
Nantucket Island, a series of large- and medium-format oil-on-paper drawings, makes reference to Nantucket Island, from which the Pequod departed in search of the white whale in the book Moby Dick by Herman Melville. The title lends continuity to the series of drawings made by Cadu in 2009, entitled Barbican (a historic district in the city of Plymouth, United Kingdom) in which the relation between the coast and the continent is explored through the representation of figure and background.
