The work of abyss and time

Transmedia project, with artworks:

Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished, 2022
Mixed-media installation, 2.5x2.5m
Infrared heating light, transducer, displays, digital video, unfinished texts

That which stays, 2022
Transmedia performance
Transducer, infrared heating light, journal

Becoming tropical, 2023
Transmedia performance
Transducer, infrared heating light, journal

The work of abyss and time consists of an auto-ethnography of mourning, investigated by the performativity of text, light, and heat. Through different gestures, the project is a biographical attempt at making kin with grief by performing corazonar (the “warming up” of reason) as a means of research into the abyss of representation engendered by loss.

In Every abyss is a poem yet unfinished, unfinished video recordings, essays, and poems are displayed on the floor within a broken grid. Reflected on its surfaces, a warming light displays the varying intensity of the artist’s voice depicted from logos. The light is activated through the performance That which stays, where the artist reads one of such poems and performs the transduction of his voice into light. The installation and performance attempt to bridge a particular gap of distance: in the space, words are felt as warmth and intensity, beyond verbal representation.

In Becoming Tropical, the artist expands the notion of the abyss to that of environmental loss, reenacting a new variation of the manifestos on “Tropical Style” (Araripe Jr.) and the “Anthropophagic Manifesto” (Oswald de Andrade). Performed with a heating element, the lecture-performance sheds light, transversally, on the ecological effects of heat from intimate, social, and environmental perspectives at close distance.