The Perfectionist
2020
The Perfectionist originates from the observation of an everyday action by the artist. During his stay in Prague he realized that one of his colleagues with whom he shared the apartment, after dinner, always peeled a tangerine in a peculiar and unusual way: without letting the peel break, always resulting in the creation of a continuous and spiral element. The result of the action was certainly curious, but what attracted the most was the experience of seeing such a phenomenon. It became almost a routine, where the artist's gaze was abstracted at that moment from everything else, where he captured and concentrated on that everyday action in the expectation that something would happen: the peel would eventually break or the person would succeed, ending the activity with all its preciousness and perfectionism. It was from the day-to-day coexistence that the idea for the performance emerged. In this, the figure appears sitting in front of a table and, just like at dinner time, peels tangerines without breaking them, in perfect spirals, in a continuous repetition of the gesture. The action would continue almost mechanically until the failure, the breaking of the orange peel. It is about creating an expectation of failure, of carrying an action into the field ot the metaphor of everyday experiences.
The Perfectionist, 2020
Acrylic, pigment, gesso and charcoal on paper
77,5 x 56 cm
The Perfectionist
Video frames of the performative act
Apartment located in District 7, Prague, Czech Republic, January 7, 2020
(4:3, 10’00’’, colour, w/sound, loop)
Props: Tangerines
The Perfectionist - Video installation, 2020
Wooden box, wooden slats and monitor
46,5 x 18 x 42,5 cm
Solo Exhibition Passagens por terras de ninguém, Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, PT
The Perfectionist - Installation view, 2020
Solo exhibition Passagens por terras de ninguém, Museum of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
Eight and a half, 2020
Wooden crates and glass
222 x 65 x 65 cm
Solo Exhibition As Ações de Praga, Fundação Bienal de Arte de Cerveira, PT
The Perfectionist - Installation view, 2021
Oito cascas e... , 2020
Wooden box, glass and dry tangerine peels
9 x 48,7 x 31,5 cm