Sculpture. Painting. Sculpture. Photography. Painting. Design. Screen. Paper. Steel. Clay. Wood. Painting. Field of experience.
Avoid accidents. Instead of rushing, the extended time of enjoyment. Instead of careless gesture, intuitive calculation. Instead of inattentive contact – empty of meaning – the touch that discovers yourself and your ability to respond to the invitation made to you by form, matter and their qualities.
Avoid accidents. A manifesto against brutality? A refusal of disaster in favor of ethics. Avoid accidents. A manifesto against the dangers of irresponsibility? Down with rudeness! Against destruction! For dialogue! Against negligence! Against neglect! Avoid accidents. For the alliance between the unexpected and mathematics. Avoid accidents. A manifesto in favor of kindness?
The balances are impeccable – designed and created with care and with the precision of the single piece – they rest on the industrial object, reproduced on a large scale, purely utilitarian: the bottle. They are also the contemporary resting on the timelessness of clay. Steel returns to the iron age. Times get mixed up. See! Look! Touch. Attention! Careful! Look again. Understand.
The studio came to the gallery with its nakedness of work and project table, with its entirety of project and game. Avoid accidents. Pleasure overcomes boredom. Pleasure triumphs over disgust.
Sculpture. Painting. Photography. Quantity: everything + paper. Quality: everything plus paper. Attention. Dedication. Experimentation on the sensitive. More paper + more zeal. More paper = little. More paper = poem.
Presence game. Game of scales: the large steel and the black inked sheet of paper. Game of memories: the graphic world, the engraving and the subway car caught on the cell phone screen. Game of geographies: a photograph of the beach and an iron stone, Rio de Janeiro and Minas.
Game of materials/natures: mineral and vegetable. Who is more compromising? Who is more severe? Steel sways, plays, responds, what was inflexible invites us to dance. But care is needed – because it is light, because it is fragile; because it's big, because it's heavy. Avoid accidents! Paper seems – at first glance – compliant, easy, accessible; but work is, on the contrary, a demanding, complex matter, which requires rigor and refuses those who seek it lightly. Its memory is ancient, its presence echoes the timelessness of the forests. It is intransigent with lies. It is delicately un-com-pro-mis-ing. You need to be very, very careful. It takes truth.
Everything more paper! Down with the ignorance that destroys what was achieved with work and hope! More skill! More dreams! More knowledge! More understanding! Down with the harshness! Aside from the brutality that enjoys obscurantism! A little more finesse, please. Avoid accidents! Down with cruelty!
Try it: make the right gesture. Listen to what the weight, textures, and body configurations say. Accept doubt, don't be scared by the size of what seems big; do not despise the demands of what seems small. Long live the softness! Down with the exorbitance of strength, of power, of darkness! For more kindness! Long live the apostles of kindness! Down with the prophets of stupidity and inelegance!
Let’s start with this: avoid accidents.
Eucanaã Ferraz
Curator
