Becoming: meditations
2020
curated by Maria Eduarda Duarte
4+4 proposals for making sense of today's convivial cultures series of online exhibitions at 4Cs - From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture
Becoming: meditations on landscape (I) 2020
ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm
original post: https://4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/becoming-meditations-on-landscape-i
Becoming: meditations on shadow 2020
video, color, no sound, 16:9, 1’45’’
original post: https://4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/becoming-meditations-on-shadow
Becoming: meditations on landscape (II) 2020
ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm
original post: https://4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/becoming-meditations-on-landscape-ii
Becoming: meditations on light 2020
video, color, no sound, 16:9, 1’47’’
original post: https://4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/becoming-meditations-on-light
Becoming: meditations on landscape (III) 2020
ink on paper, 21 x 29,7 cm
original post: https://4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/becoming-meditations-on-landscape-iii
Becoming: meditations on vitality 2020
video, color, no sound, 16:9, 24’’
original post: https://www.4cs-conflict-conviviality.eu/post/becoming-meditations-on-vitality
Three brief visual meditations and a growing drawing propose an encounter with different natural elements and temporalities, evoking three distinct levels of perception: on the subsoil, water and rock enunciate a slow, geological time; between the leaves of a poplar tree, wind and fire conjure up a feeling of fleeting time and suggest a latent destruction; from the cut of a tree, the time is counted drop by drop while the sap is leaking out to the soil.
An idea of landscape is pursued within the interstices of those meditations: through dissonances and similarities an attunement of times is proposed - from the geological time to the time of vitality - in a quest for reflecting about our own perception of temporality.
Becoming: meditations was developed in april 2020, during the first lockdown in Portugal.
It was an invitation from 4Cs - From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture (Creative Culture Europe) and it was supported by them.
Fulgor - BACM 2025
© Photo credits by Hugo Adelino
Becoming: meditations 2020
Exhibition view at Fulgor - Maia Contemporary Art Biennial 2025, curated by Manuel Santos Maia
Fulgor - BACM 2025
© Photo credits by Hugo Adelino
Exhibition views at Fulgor - Maia Contemporary Art Biennial 2025, curated by Manuel Santos Maia
(1-2) Installation with Becoming: meditations (2020), Shadow in the sun: a small herbarium of shadows and their metamorphoses (2023–2025) and Envolta (2023)
(3-4) Exhibition views with the works mentioned above and works by Carla Cruz and Cláudia Lopes (Superfície, 2023), Mariana Vilanova (Réplica de um estado transitório, 2025) and Thiago Rocha Pitta (Herança, 2007)
digital catalogue: https://drive.google.com/file/d/181xVNfJvDIsvdxOSTFV-tGjw7GnJ8tbz/view?usp=sharing
