ASSEMBLEIA

THE HORIZONS DID NOT INVENT VANISHING POINTS

2022
Aluminum mesh
89 x 152 x 9 cm

WE WILL NEVER HAVE THE SAME HISTORIES
2021
Series: Conversations about who we are
Thorned branch, processed wood and nail
112 x 6 x 7 cm

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"ASSEMBLEIA is a proposal selected from the open call made by Refresco for the 2022 programming. The exhibition builds on the idea of ​​thinking through the hybridisms that permeate the networks through which we organize and distribute ourselves. At the same time, its works question the dualistic frameworks that divide the world in binary terms, challenging the objectivity of modern thought and the idea of representation. ASSEMBLEIA is a dynamic complex of ideas and materials that come together to create something new."

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The collective consists of works by the following artists: Andrew Silva, Augusto Portella, Danielle Cavalher, Daniel Frickmann, Eduardo Baltazar, Jade Sassará, Marianna Guinle, Marta Supernova, Michel Capitão, Natasha Ribas, Nathalie Ventura, Carlos Renato, Ronda, Zé Tepedino. (Refresco Gallery)

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Curatorial text by Daniela Avellar:

"In ASSEMBLEIA, it's as if one work tells another work something, and so on. In the narrative constructed in the network, changes reconfigure one work and another, creating couplings and generating transfers. The process of creating this exhibition starts from a relatively simple formulation: bringing formalizations around an idea of ​​hybridism into the exhibition space. During the time we were close, we thought about the variables where hybridism can resonate. What lines do they draw, how can we map them? And here we have a tension that is common to any attempt within the arts. We know that it is almost impossible to separate objects from discursive layers. Beyond plastic aspects, every work, consciously or unconsciously, speaks, creates problems. On the one hand, we have the concept eliciting this enunciative field; on the other hand, we have the intersemiotic translations. How would the forms account for such hybridism? How to make the idea have density, texture, weight, and volume? Is creating based on a rational concept and deliberately deriving from it? Or does the form end up surprising us, revealing its own autonomous paths?

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The paths opened by this exhibition not only point to hybridisms but also to attempts to subvert the thinking that tries to categorize through outdated dictates, taking indices as suspects and rejecting ideas linked to stagnant signifiers. These created maps make traces that expose modernity as a thought supported by pillars that the works aim to collapse. They are multidirectional arrows breaking with a linearity that makes one thing exist not only separated from something else but at the expense of another thing.

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We know that our supposed objectivity ends up presenting the world to us in a fragmented way. Thoughts that move from an idea of representation, or even elaborations associated with intuition, are attempts to deal with the parts of a whole in a non-segmented way. A search to find dynamic relationships between all things. The paradox of autonomy/dependence refers to artistic processes, but also to the way we relate in general. Linear thinking sustains not only the idea of ​​an ego separated from the world but also of a subject that is not affected by what it perceives. The works found in ASSEMBLEIA may not solve these problems, which are certainly deeper, but they function as excellent elaborations, attempting to dimension the issues in terms of scale, also bringing conflicts to the symbolic and creating bridges between distances."