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Crepúsculo
2013
GESTURE. RHYTHM
The work on sandpaper requires a physical effort and a more concrete involvement than traditional painting. There is a sculptural dimension on the act itself, only barely sensed by the viewer, since little or nothing of it appears in the final result. Somehow like a musician, who in order to produce a sound, needs to involve all his body in a physical act, sometimes extreme, with an instrument. But, this sound, when produced, will rarely retain any traces of that creative effort.
LIGHT
In Un jour si blanc, the first project in which Inês A uses sandpaper as a medium, we could discover the whole process through a diversity of media (sandpaper, painting, video): the exploration of successive layers, sometimes added, sometimes revealed in the material. What stood out was the luminosity of the result. But, too much light dazzles, becomes uncomfortable and dispels. One then moves to other side, to the darkness, unique and unsharable, which will once again open up to the light. That is Crepúsculo (Twilight).
ABSENCE. SOLITUDE
Every creative act is solitary. The result is shown or shared, however prepared it may have been, but nothing is revealed of the process, always unique and intrinsically personal. As is the viewer’s perception. In Crepúsculo we can sense an absence, an unexplained emptiness.
SPACE. TIME
More than an image, it is the almost palpable rhythm that ends up involving us. But for that to happen, one needs time to observe. The abstract fragments revealed on the sandpaper emanate an enormous freedom. The space they originate; the universe which, on their scale, they create; the light that they allow us to glimpse upon, may fill in the absence. We just need time.
2013
GESTURE. RHYTHM
The work on sandpaper requires a physical effort and a more concrete involvement than traditional painting. There is a sculptural dimension on the act itself, only barely sensed by the viewer, since little or nothing of it appears in the final result. Somehow like a musician, who in order to produce a sound, needs to involve all his body in a physical act, sometimes extreme, with an instrument. But, this sound, when produced, will rarely retain any traces of that creative effort.
LIGHT
In Un jour si blanc, the first project in which Inês A uses sandpaper as a medium, we could discover the whole process through a diversity of media (sandpaper, painting, video): the exploration of successive layers, sometimes added, sometimes revealed in the material. What stood out was the luminosity of the result. But, too much light dazzles, becomes uncomfortable and dispels. One then moves to other side, to the darkness, unique and unsharable, which will once again open up to the light. That is Crepúsculo (Twilight).
ABSENCE. SOLITUDE
Every creative act is solitary. The result is shown or shared, however prepared it may have been, but nothing is revealed of the process, always unique and intrinsically personal. As is the viewer’s perception. In Crepúsculo we can sense an absence, an unexplained emptiness.
SPACE. TIME
More than an image, it is the almost palpable rhythm that ends up involving us. But for that to happen, one needs time to observe. The abstract fragments revealed on the sandpaper emanate an enormous freedom. The space they originate; the universe which, on their scale, they create; the light that they allow us to glimpse upon, may fill in the absence. We just need time.
Francisco Sassetti