This is a deposit of detached and banal objects only apparently disconnected.
All the presented items seem out of place or of some form mistaken, presupposing for his existence, while objects of interest, a break in the normal chain of events. They integrate so the kingdom of things that is not supposed to happen.
Each object – be it represented how in the case of stocking or present one as in the case of movie – it sends for an unknown situation of observer. Working like signs of complex histories, the objects present themselves so mysterious still, and also, because usual.
Each one of the objects-specimens is accompanied by title-inscription and technical token in an attempted of classificatory sense. The subtitles although short (ex: The movie never revealed), intensify the ambivalence between a bigger knowledge on the situation (the movie is here because someone don’t have the courage to revealing) and the openness to a bigger mystery than it hardly will be able to be answered by suppositions (what is photographed in there of so, or so little, important so that his owner has never been revealing it?).
Doesn’t show up here a deposit with an archive or an explicit logic proper of rigidity of scientific classification but much more of the domain of emotional and personal space of his collector – obviously private.
Description of the objects, available for the audience:
Object 1
The tree after a stormy night.
Digital photography/Frontier 15 X 20 cm over PVC. 2006/2007
Object 2
The film that has never been developed.
Roll of colour negative 35mm photography film of 36 exposures on acrylic plinth. 2000/2007
Object 3
The returned telephone message.
60 min audiotape on acrylic plinth. 1998/2007
Object 4
The lost sock found in the street.
Digital photography/Frontier 10 X 15 cm over PVC. 2006/2007
Object 5
The other sock.
Women’s sock by Women’secret.2006/2007
Object 6
The photograph of the women of the family with identical night shirts.
Light box with photograph in colour negative/fujitran 10X15cm. 1998/2007
Object 7
Book bought in second hand with hand written dedication.
Open book with dedication by Pavel, 19 X 24,5 cm e 19,6 X 25,5 cm. 1997/2007.
BÜCHLER Pavel, PAPASTERGIADIS Nikos (ed.), Random Access On crisis and its metaphors, London, Rivers Oram Press, coll. cultural studies/visual arts, 1995, 214 pg..
Object 8
Book bought in second hand with hand written dedication.
Open book with dedication by Jonathan W., 19,6 X 25,5 cm. 1997/2007.
BULGAKOV Mikhail, The Master and Margarita, London, The Harvill Press, 1996, 448 pg..
Depósito (Deposit/Storage), 2007, thematic work on the idea of deposit, knowledge and archiving for a group show at the University of Porto, joining works from the University various museum’s collections and original works by contemporary artists, Depósito. Anotações sobre Densidade e Conhecimento (Storage. Notes on Density and Knowledge), University of Porto, Portugal.
Curator: Paulo Cunha e Silva.
White and transparent 5mm acrylic table, MDF, bulb, with eight objects 54x114x20 cm and A4 description.
Thanks to Manuel Gaspar Maquetes and architects Matilde Seabra and Ivo Poças Martins.
Photos of the exhibition views by André Cepeda/Blues Studio.
Cover of the exhibition catalogue
