May 4 — June 22, 2019
Galeria Quadrado Azul
Porto, Portugal

Solo exhibition

Cavazaque Piu Piu is an installation in which language, objects and sound are placed within an unstable regime of association, producing an environment where meaning is not directly given, but emerges through displacements, proximity and misreadings.

The exhibition brings together a set of sculptures, a sound piece and a programmed lighting system that activates variable relations between its different elements. Rather than functioning as autonomous entities, the materials circulate, as if each temporarily incorporates what the other articulates.

The project proposes a form of unmediated knowledge, or rather, an experience in which mediation becomes visible as construction. Perception is not organised through linear reading, but through partial synchronisations between sound, object and light, which never fully stabilise.

The sound piece—built from a sequence of narratives, associations and conceptual derivations—introduces a discursive field in which knowledge is treated as a sensory hypothesis, closer to suggestion than assertion. The very idea of a “history of smells”, evoked in the work, operates as a line of flight: a form of knowledge yet to be written, which can only exist as an attempt to approach the world.

The sculptures function as transfer entities. They do not illustrate the sound, nor represent it, but partially absorb it, shifting meaning between body, language and form. The programmed light reinforces this system, not as atmospheric element, but as a mechanism of perceptual editing.

Within this context, the title—simultaneously comic and enigmatic—acts as a destabilising key. “Cavazaque Piu Piu” does not fix meaning; instead, it opens a space between anecdote, riddle and mistranslation, where sense oscillates between recognition and noise.

The exhibition thus operates as a device of failed or incomplete knowledge, where seeing, hearing and interpreting cease to be separate operations and instead form a single field of continuous variation.

The exhibition was developed in collaboration with Nada T. Roberts.