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JAPANESE GARDENS (FOR MIYAZAKI) SERIES
part of the curated project LABYRINTH
by Ana Matos (Salgadeiras Gallery)
at DRAWING ROOM LISBOA
with:
!!! Gallery Curatorial Project Award 2023 !!!
”There will never be a door. You are inside | And the citadel encompasses the universe | And it has neither obverse nor reverse | Neither external wall nor secret center,” Borges said about his labyrinth, and which we invoke in this curatorial proposal, an idea of a path that is traversed without knowing where (and how) it ends, entangled as we are in a multiplicity of planes and lines. We are left with that thread of Ariadne that leaves its trail, which will eventually lead us to the exit of this labyrinth. Or not. Or perhaps we don’t even want to leave it, so the exercise can continue into eternity. “Labyrinth,” with recent and unpublished works by Rui Horta Pereira and Rui Soares Costa, also refers to Baroque literature and suggests a reading and interpretation without a predefined direction, in constant dialogue between these two artists.
Rui Horta Pereira, with the series “Alvo” (Target) and “Objectos para ludibriar o vazio” (Objects to Deceive Emptiness), invites the viewer to a play of light, shapes, and perception. Strips of paper define line and contour, deceiving the space with their spectrum of light that emanates from chromatic vibration and shadows. Paper and light bring Theseus out of the labyrinth.
Rui Soares Costa presents the series “Japanese Gardens (for Miyazaki)” which draws on Japanese culture
and its intrinsic respect for the Other (human and non-human), and Miyazaki as a cult of the sweetness
of imagination, in a constant dialogue with the non-humans. A thread of Ariadne that may allow us to find
the way out of the dense and dark labyrinth in which we find ourselves today, in this new Anthropocene.
Returning to Borges, “I leave to the various futures (not to all of them) my garden of forking paths”.
Ana Matos
Lisboa, October 2023
JAPANESE GARDENS (FOR MIYAZAKI)
Há, na forma como a natureza faz, na forma como a natureza resolve, na forma como a natureza encontra soluções para problemas, uma incomensurável fonte de inspiração e conhecimento para a humanidade encontrar os caminhos que permitirão encontrar a saída do denso e escuro labirinto onde nos encontramos hoje, neste novo Antropoceno.
Sejam os bichos da seda, as aranhas, ou mesmo os fetos, líquenes ou fungos, a forma como a vida acontece é também exemplar na demonstração de como os não-humanos podem informar os problemas dos humanos. A saída para parte da problemática do Antropoceno pode ser mediada por soluções de não-humanos.
É assim que os jardins, enquanto estruturas de humanos populadas por não-humanos, podem ser singulares nesta condição de fonte de soluções.
Japão e Miyazaki enquanto dois referentes. Japão no respeito pelo outro, outro humano e não-humano. Miyazaki enquanto culto da doçura da imaginação sem espartilhos, num diálogo sempre visceral com os não-humanos.
Rui Soares Costa
Baleal, Maio 2023
Rui Soares Costa © 2023 | All Rights Reserved
October 25 - October 29, 2023
DRAWING ROOM
Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes
Lisbon, PT