no. 23 Editorial
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ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay + Author in residence

7 Portraits

7 Portraits

João Fonte Santa

VHS, 29' By João Fonte Santa, assisted by António Caramelo The video Sete Retratos was created for the exhibition Mundo de Aventuras, curated by José Alberto Ferreira, and features 7 video portraits, …

7 Portraits

B, Y, R

Visual Essay

B, Y, R

Henrique Biatto

Água Viva

Visual Essay

Água Viva

Lander Patrick, Gonçalo Marques, José Soares

Through the longest path

Visual Essay

Through the longest path

Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)

Working with mountains is easy

Article

Working with mountains is easy

Isadora Alves

Process Of Unframability

Sound Essay

Process Of Unframability

Frantz Loriot

Drowned, in the shame of light

Visual Essay

Drowned, in the shame of light

Isabela Abate & João Castro

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Visual Essay

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Pedro Paiva

Sightings

Visual Essay

Sightings

Francisco Novais

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

Visual Essay

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

António Olaio

Misfits

Visual Essay

Misfits

Fabrizio Matos

Out Of Here

Sound Essay

Out Of Here

Quatroconnection (Carla Santana)

Weiße Rose

Visual Essay + Author in residence

Weiße Rose

João Fonte Santa

it was just drained, drained

Sound Essay

it was just drained, drained

André Hencleeday

Lavagem

Visual Essay

Lavagem

João Jacinto

XXX

Visual Essay + Author in residence

XXX

João Fonte Santa

The hand with no specialty

Visual Essay

The hand with no specialty

Carolina Lino

Wrong Wrong n.23

Misfits

Visual Essay 15.02.2021

Si

Sabyne Cavalcanti

MOBILE BODY

[...] the private space must know how to open up to flows of people entering and leaving, to be the place of passage for a continuous circulation, where objects, people, words and ideas intersect. For life is also mobility, impatience for change, relation with a plural of the other. – Michel de Certau and Luce Giard

Artist and furniture are integrated in the immateriality of memory, in the daily life that is open to the flow of people, aware of the passage of time. If life is mobility, the body is mobile, creature and objects move through places, oscillate between stories that leave their marks on the skin, on the wood of the furniture, on the demolished tile. Sabyne Cavalcanti unlocks the place where she lives, leaves the doors of the Mataquiri Museum open so that the «relation with a plural of the other» becomes complete, and thus establishing the exchanges, possible in the field of affect and art.

The dwelling, recurrent in her work, means proximity to nature, to earth, to grass, to the clay that is born from the mud to be molded on the body. Like an architect, Sabyne organizes spaces that harbor feelings and actions of approximation between beings, places and objects. Previous works such as SI(I), Casa Oca (Hollow House) and Suprasensação (Suprasensation) offer dwellings built with grass, dug in the ground or molded in the body itself to become the place of being. The collecting of furniture now leads to another space, of a museological character that lets itself be invaded by stories that exude from the exhibited objects of the house-museum, previously a residence.

They are spliced spaces, interconnected by the land, by the plant that blooms in the yard, by the works that are spread by the trees. The museum and the artist live together and intermingle in everyday life. The collection of furniture, removed from the underground layers of life, spreads through rooms and quarters where the white crib in which Sabyne slept, the archive of the school where she studied, the shoe rack from the market in Cascavel, the large closet donated by friend José Tarcísio, are housed. They are objects that, like others, carry with them temporal wear, smells, intimacies covered up by memories. The lost fingerprints await the touch of new hands and the object acquires a new function: that of art.

Marisa Mokarzel

Translation from Portuguese by Susana Mouzinho

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Images: Recording of the Mobile Body exhibition, by Sabyne Cavalcanti. Museum of Contemporary Art of Ceará, MAC-CE, 2015

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