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VISUAL ESSAYS #6
Work-in-Progress
Objects accompanied by the atmospheres of the past activate memory.
At the moment, we remember another atmosphere, that of the present, which can alter post-events and vice versa.
Each object he collects is a place, a time, an ATMOSPHERE.
“A world lost and found again”, as Alexander Luria puts it.
From the memory of the objects to the memory of the body
#1 Proceed to the route through the lines | #2 Cross the paths of strange atmosphere
#3 Follow the atmospheric absent body | #4 Go to memory lane |
#5 Corpo desocupado
#6 Ongoing the habit of repetition and other shadows
Artistic Research III — Visual Essays
The exhibition space "Room twenty-two," simulating a room in the old University Hospital of Coimbra, hosts the exhibition "Bedside Flowers."
The heavy passing of time rests patiently on a flower, transforming it into a sundial. In such sundials, time is measured by light and shadow. Thus, we learn that any light, in its vocation to illuminate, to brighten, always casts a more or less long shadow. Perhaps this “geometry” of light and shadow is, in time, what we have most certain of.
In BEDSIDE FLOWERS, the resigned journey of the shadow crosses the white wall of a room with the rhythmic cadence of the dripping days. Time becomes perceptible. Here, indeed, there is a time accessible to the eye, a time that, between light and shadow, day and night, is glimpsed as if it were a play of wandering spectres, or diaphanous dreams. There are dreams in time, just as there will be memories in the shadows. And there is light: we do not forget the light that breaks through the shadows.
Luís António Umbelino.
Visual Essay #6 Bedside Flowers #155 (2025)