January 25 — March 17, 2020
Fundação Carmona e Costa
Lisbon, Portugal

Solo exhibition
Curated by Filipa Oliveira

The I of the Beeholder, publication

The installation is structured as a device operating between perception, translation and the dissolution of roles between viewer, object and voice. The project emerges from an exhibition system in which drawing, sculpture and sound are placed within a continuous circuit, where none of these elements remains fixed or autonomous.

The exhibition is organised as a sequence of interdependent spaces in which materials are not presented as isolated works, but as states of transformation. Drawing is vocalised, voice becomes sonic matter, and sculpture emerges as the result of a chain of interpretations and translations between different agents.

Within this context, the figure of the viewer no longer occupies an external position. The experience implies direct involvement in the structure of the exhibition, functioning as an active element in the activation of the system. The well-known expression “the eye of the beholder” is displaced into a condition in which the observer not only interprets, but also integrates and extends the functioning of the work itself.

The installation thus proposes an economy of gestures in which the relation between seeing, hearing and interpreting becomes unstable, producing a continuous field of resonances between language, body and materiality. The exhibition space operates as an organism in which the boundaries between representation and presence gradually become indistinct.

Rather than a linear narrative or a sequence of objects, the project develops a choreography of successive translations, in which each element is simultaneously the origin and consequence of another.

The installation was developed in collaboration with comedian and actress Lotte Allan and writer João Carlos Costa.