Desvio (desconversadeira 4 and 5)

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Desvio (desconversadeiras 4 e 5)

presented at Subitamente, a esperança

(Collective Artistic/design exposition)

Bragança, Between 13 of August until 10 October of 2021

Author: Carlos Casimiro Costa & Jacinta Costa [Costas]

They say ostriches hide from gazes...by burying their heads. They say that this time and moment has served to bury all our heads: closing the body and creating absence. We feel the absence of presence as never before, for endless hours in front of vibrating mirrors of other realities. We, now transfer once more that body distance into the space of all, and suddenly it is not the face that appears, it is the body. What kind of body and interface? Deviate your eye, your mouth and your ears, build the distance the eternal distance...

show your body and hide, sit down.

refrain from your facial emotions

Subtly, keep sit,

try to say some words,

do not do it

loudly, please

Subtitle: desconversadeiras 4 and 5 | deconversation or no-talk bench 4 and 5

Today, bridges, roads, routes, high-speed paths are emerging in a continuous space of communicative flows. In contrast, the allegory of the shadows and the cave is resumed. We are not talking about ourselves, just as we are not talking to those who have offended us. We talk back to objects and free ourselves from the city, we take refuge between waste and walls. We are alone, infinitely alone, curiously more alone.

To resume sitting or the 'lovers' chair', creating monologues, inducing abstinence from the stare, touch and sound on the other, creating frontiers and walls, inciting communication by digital interpolation, dividing the body and its physicalness. Undoing to create absence, increasing distance, remaking materials, lost forms, reusing what has been abandoned by industry and nature - Allreadydesigned since 2007.

Materials and resources: Granite

Dimensions: (approximate): Each piece should be approximately 80 x 150 x 130 cm

Acknowledgements: Bragança City Council and Cooperativo dos Pedreiros (Porto)

Resume: The project was presented in an open-air exhibition, in the heart of the Bragança Historic Centre in Portugal, with nine works and a collective of artists/designers (Ana Pascoal, António Santos, Duarte Saraiva, João Ferreira, José Luís Benites, Miguel Moreira e Silva & Mário Ortega, Octávio Marrão and Ofélia Marrão).

Curator introduction to the collective exposition by Carlos and Jacinta [Costas] + Ofélia Marrão

Perhaps the rethinking of the city as an aggregating element in which the public space, this agglutinator, is made, transformed, reappearing with new clothes and new coats. It equates the sleeping world, crippling the silences, provoking looks and sensations. There is no greater charm than the idea of hope, associating the words love, happiness or even the idea of 'something good' that we can achieve in the future. A kind of repression of a future 'well-being' with the antithesis of absence and emptiness. However, there is the idea of a subtle body that acts on the mnemonic construction of the unexpected, agile or the unique moment in which the hope of space and time are circumscribed and create a new dialogue. In a street of the city in which, stunned by the emptiness, it manifests itself again by crossing a group of artists, designers and other 'activists', this epilogue appears, in which the vain feat of questioning spaces once again challenges the provocative sense of art as a sensitive manifestation of the moment.