In Elementos (da terra acesa e da serra da estrela), the landscape is completed in a diptych. snow fog and earth smoke appear side by side in an extension of the land line. the two videos presented here side by side put into dialogue two different projects of 2018: da terra acesa (sput&nik the window, Porto, november 2018) and residir é mais um atravessar (Wool museum, Montanha Mágica project, UBI Covilhã, november 2018).
Our work is often based on research into our relationship with the landscape, in questions that often expand from the idea of roaming, crossing, ecology and human condition. the process of walking and crossing the territory as a method of acquiring knowledge is spread by various supports in the expositions – photography, drawing, video, sound, objects, constructions – implying a relation of speculative discovery with the work from the public, thus in a way that unfolds simultaneously through the exhibition space and the mind of the viewer.
In Elementos, two portuguese landscapes are aligned in a wide harmony of divergent elements: the visible consequences of the fire of the great fire in Pedorido and the snow in the Serra da Estrela overlap with their own drawings. United by the duplicity of the video and the trace of the graphite, the two places find a common space, which is the presence of the artists who were there. The on-site work process appears clearly represented as well, as in the small investigative round in which we see the artists move away from the camera to go towards the musician Gustavo Costa, who is at the bottom of the image shot, only to come back together and once again take the round trip – and in a loop. It is in an almost narrative of suspended territories that the invented landscape of this projection renders floating above Candelabro’s patrons the land, water, air and fire.