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S/ título, impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, montagem em dibond, cabos de aço de dimensão variável, 60x60cm || Untitled, Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, mounted on dibond, 60x60cm, instalation with variable size
S/ título, impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, montagem em dibond, cabos de aço de dimensão variável, 60x60cm || Untitled, Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, mounted on dibond, 60x60cm, instalation with variable size
S/ título, impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, montagem em dibond, cabos de aço de dimensão variável, 60x60cm || Untitled, Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, mounted on dibond, 60x60cm, instalation with variable size
S/ título, impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, montagem em dibond, cabos de aço de dimensão variável, 60x60cm || Untitled, Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, mounted on dibond, 60x60cm, instalation with variable size
Vista de instalação Edifício AXA, Porto, Nov.2014 || Instalation View, AXA Building, Porto, Nov.2015
Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
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S/ título, impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, montagem em dibond, cabos de aço de dimensão variável, 60x60cm || Untitled, Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, mounted on dibond, 60x60cm, instalation with variable size
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S/ título, impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, montagem em dibond, cabos de aço de dimensão variável, 60x60cm || Untitled, Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, mounted on dibond, 60x60cm, instalation with variable size
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S/ título, impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl, montagem em dibond, cabos de aço de dimensão variável, 60x60cm || Untitled, Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper, mounted on dibond, 60x60cm, instalation with variable size
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Vista de instalação Edifício AXA, Porto, Nov.2014 || Instalation View, AXA Building, Porto, Nov.2015
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Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
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Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
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Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
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Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
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Vista da exposição | Instalation view - Cooperativa Árvore, Porto || Out. | Oct.2016
Quixote
The elements from this series evoke Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - considered by some to be the “first modern novel” (Bloom, 2003) - , concerning my relation to these giants and establishing a connection to one of Quixote’s ravings
Chapter VIII - Of the good fortune which the valiant Don Quixote had in the terrible and undreamt-of adventure of the windmills, with other occurrences worthy to be fitly recorded.
Fortune is arranging matters for us better than we could have shaped our desires ourselves, for look there, friend Sancho Panza, where thirty or more monstrous giants present themselves, all of whom I mean to engage in battle and slay, and with whose spoils we shall begin to make our fortunes; for this is righteous warfare, and it is God's good service to sweep so evil a breed from off the face of the earth (Saavedra, 2016, pp. 262–264). – originally written in 1605.
Don Quixote saw his windmills as “monstrous giants” that he had to fight. To me, these modern times windmills are hypnotic elements in a landscape, ones that I can’t avoid looking at when they’re just small elements in a landscape. But when I come closer to them, an uncanny feeling takes over, their proximity unsettles me. In Portugal they were seen as a symbol of progress, of a serious engagement towards being in a first world country.
This series relates a well-known narrative to particular aspects of the author’s own imaginary and the place where he comes from and lives.
The installation occupies the three-dimensional space of the gallery because of the strings that come out of the wind turbine blades (the ones that are pointing upwards in the frame) and because of this, it varies in size, depending on the room where it is shown.
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12 photographs || Inkjet prints on Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl paper | mounted on dibond | 60x60cm (each image), instalation with variable size
12 fotografias || Impressão jato tinta sobre papel Hahnemühle Fine Art Pearl | Montagem em dibond || cabos de aço de dimensão variável || 60x60cm (cada imagem), instalação de dimensão variável
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