Dive
2019-20
On May 20, 2019, around three in the afternoon, a figure opens the door to the second floor of the sculpture pavilion, usually called Porta de Suicídio (Suicide Door). This door overlooking the college garden, with restricted access, with no apparent function and with a slightly illogical location is the place where the act unfolds. In front of that door there is a diving board and down there, on the ground floor, a small red and white striped pool with water. The figure proceeds to jump and take a dive from the diving board to the supposed pool. Here we find the absurd, the illogical and the surreal. The space, generally seen as a place of passage or of socializing, undergoes a reinvention through the transfer of an action associated with swimming: diving. The pool is too small to jump from the second floor. Did the action unfold? Who had access to it? What happened to the figure? What is its purpose? The action was not announced to the public and there is no photographic or video record of it. The presented drawings work not only as protocol and autonomous drawings where the action was conceived, thought and planned, but also as documentation and testimony, which intend to register and document the event. These are rumors, vestiges of a past and supposedly witnessed time where fiction, narrative and speculation are placed in dialogue between the various drawings, highlighting the performative possibilities that they can incorporate.
Dive - Protocol drawings, 2019
Mixed media on paper and diorama
Variable dimensions
Solo Exhibition Passagens por terras de ninguém, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, 2020
Dive- Installation view, 2020
Solo exhibition Passagens por terras de ninguém, Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
Tourette walking on jumping board, 2019
Acrylic and gesso on half-tone paper
77,1 x 30,6 cm
Piscina, 2020
Kids pool, enamel, lane ropes, palette and wood
Variable dimensions
Lugar-ação ou pequena introdução a um canovaccio, 2020
Framed pinhole photograph, MDF, enamel, palette, nails and wood
Variable dimensions
O mergulhador l and II, 2019
Charcoal, black chalk, acrylic and gesso on paper
(2x) 111,5 x 77 cm
Touca, 2019
Acrylic, gesso and colored pencils on paper
48,5 x 44 cm