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The Legacies of the visits of HA (or its all about some sundials and some oak trees)

2020

Every few years he would go back to England, to make his visit (I am judging from some photographs he showed us) to a sundial and a stand of oak trees. (Jorge Luís Borges, "Fictions")

The Legacies of the visits of HA (or its all about some sundials and some oak trees), consists of an action carried out during the trip and the consequent stay of the performer in the city of London, in the beginning of 2020. The action has as its motive the reading of a a phrase from one of the several short stories that are part of the book “Fictions” by Jorge Luís Borges. It is from the appropriation of the narrative, from the character of Herbert Ashe and exploring the absurd as a method, that one seeks to speculate on the narrated event, enhancing and reformulating it through its reconstruction, in a dilution between reality and fiction, presenting a possibly uchronia (a hypothetical or fictional time period) of the event.

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The Legacies of the visits of H.A. (or its all about some sundials and some oak trees) – Photographic documentation of the performative act

Battersea Park, London, England, February 15, 2020
Duration: 28 minutes
Props: Wooden sundial and yellow jacket

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The Legacies of the visits of H.A. (or its all about some sundials and some oak trees) - Installation view, 2020
Solo exhibition Passagens por terras de ninguém, Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto

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Relógio do sol, 2020
Acrylic, indian ink, charcoal and gesso on paper
64,4 x 61 cm

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Meeting time, 2020

MDF, acrylic, gesso, sundial and yellow lamp with string
Variable dimensions

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London Oak Tree, 2020
Acrylic, charcoal, black chalk and indian ink on cardboard paper

228,8 x 142,8 cm

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