ROOM 3
Half-eye, long face

In some traditional
African rituals and celebrations, the participants - dressed in masks and
clothes - whirl around at dizzying speed. The festivity leads to movement and
the movement energises the festivities. Everything changes and is
transfigured.
The oeuvre of
Pedro Henriques (Porto, 1985) and encounters unexpected meanings in this context.
Self-standing, as supernatural entities or as planar figures, as open paintings
on the wall, the sculptures establish a dialogue of tensions, scales and
textures with the African masks.
Bound together by an elementary and schematic language,
or even, as the artist says, "uncomfortable places between the image and
the object", these works evoke ambiguous meanings. Rather than an
ambiguity that is engendered more through technique than discourse, rooted in
different textures and ways of making things: they can be planes and graphics,
as well as nervous and convulsive, or even derive from the mechanical process
of spray application. In some works, the visuality of the fingers also seems to
be echoed.
FOR ALL AGES

FOR ALL AGES
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