Boundaries

“I used electricity in various works of diagrams. I think when you have a proper circuit, you can work things out yourself. Even the use of metals in the work is somehow related to this, creating energy fields, iron oxide surfaces covered with layers of graphite where there is a greater possibility of concentrating energy, conductive circuits on gold or copper…. In a way, graphite is highly conductive. … [M]y work is [done] with mineral pigments, mostly, not with chemical pigments. So there is a certain choice of materials, of type: a certain mineral like malachite or a carbon like graphite, or even poison, which has its color. Due to its nature of being poison.” Hans-Michael Herzog, “Hans-Michael Herzog em conversa com Antonio Dias,“ in Antonio Dias: Anywhere Is My Land, edited by Hans-Michael Herzog (São Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado, 2010), 162. Translated for this exhibition.