This work is the result of the Elliptical Trip project in which, through daily drawing, I turn my attention to the daily life of humanity’s elliptical path through outer space. The installation-drawing arises from an irregular centripetal gesture when building a space of relationships. In designing the installation, I seek to displace the objects, including the drawings themselves, from their original functions and, consequently, I attribute aesthetic functions to each small object.

Thus, I call attention to the excess of things that surround us. So, instead of praising precariousness and improvisation, I produce new tensions, I evoke the possibilities of non-trivial encounters. And in this poetics of changing the objects of their predestination, I ask: to what extent are we not becoming things uncritically easy to be (re)moved in a dehumanizing system?

 

Aluminum rods, iron rod, chromed metal bar, lamp holder, paper clips, wood, steel cable, nylon wire and fabric, masking tape, liquid porcelain (biscuit), coated copper cable, usb cable, door lock, jet printer paper scroll frame, screw holder, screw, aluminum ruler plate, clamping press, ceramic oven block, non-slip rubber, pendant, graphite and gouache on tissue paper, graphite, ink and gouache on fabbrian paper, oil pastel and spray on watercolor paper, graphite on tracing paper, ink parchment paper, pencil and ink without squared paper, posca on dotted paper, spray on acetate, on linen canvas prepared for painting.

 

350 x 215 x 170 cm,

2022

 

Victor Gonçalves

Victor Gonçalves