exposição XVIII

Exhibition

JOSÉ MIGUEL GERVÁSIO
[PORTUGAL]

HETEROCLITOLOGIA

opening · 29 may · 9 pm
on display until 7 june

Cineteatro Curvo Semedo – Foyer

Guided Tour + Talk on 6 June at 4 pm

The three-dimensional nature of these objects—undefined shelters, structures without a stated function, forms that refuse to be integrated into the absolute functionality of the regime of life—does not grant them a clearly defined disciplinary identity. The heteroclite can be read as architectural models without a programme, as sculptures devoid of monumentality, or as characters without psychology. This indeterminacy does not constitute a formal deficit, but rather their fundamental operative condition: these are forms that exist outside function and outside representation, fully inscribed within the field of art as an ontological essay. What is affirmed in them is not the thing as a functional object or recognisable sign, but the restless presence of something that resists naming. Ultimately, these forms represent nothing other than their own difference in action, asserting themselves as a singular existence without a prior model, in a sense close to that which Difference and Repetition describes as production without a representational foundation.

© José Miguel Gervásio