The Adventure Of The Uncertain

Fengyi used to practice Qi Gong, thus preparing the unfurling of long parchment paper rolls where he would incessantly inscribe the time at which the brushstrokes sensed nervous systems and cosmic diagrams, until the last moment of inscription bearing the final hour.

Queiroz's drawings speak of their own morphology. The act of drawing generates his caves and mountains and is represented in the drawings. Blending figures and backgrounds in an architecture without measurable scale, Jorge follows the steps that leave its marks on paper.

Crossing the realms of the mind in a state of hypnosis, Mullican embodies another person - "that person". In these paintings, we follow someone waking up and their visual field: the bed sheets, bath, breakfast, reading the newspaper, going to work.

An enigma: biting the flow of time. Contrary to Western tradition, in which one of the representations of time is a hand grabbing the hair of the one running away. 

Here, you can picture an old man with no teeth running after himself when he is already ahead of himself.

In Haiti, an apprentice blacksmith holds an ember in the palm of his hand, walks with it and lights a cigarette. Bien-Aimé bends the metal and with it, human, animal and vegetable elements come together in a single piece of glowing shadows.

Our senses continue to be stimulated with Themlitz, skittering between categories, bathed in a perception in transit, shuffling forms and names.

A long day or a long night, as one prefers, without breaks, crossing the minimum cracks of time, without giving up on any instant. Gonçalo Pena inhabits the torrents in which his drawings follow one another and indicate all directions.