Insomnia
Faces without anchors, naked in a place other than theirs
Here, I picture a generation in a limbo, wandering, without knowing which way to go.
I’ve always been interested in faces. They are the principal vehicles for emotions and experiences, as singular identities. I seek to reveal, through them, contained conflicts, blockades, absences, vacuums and interrogations.
Délia de Carvalho
Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2013
Acrylic on paper |90x90cm | 2014
Private Collection
Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2012
Acrylic on paper | 140x130cm | 2014
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There is always something else on someone’s portrait.
Where is the life of an entire generation that promised to be fulfilled, but whose expectations were suddenly denied under the banner of a “crisis”? Portraits of an era, of a particular condition? Or, beyond that, the universal human, the hard distance between what’s promised and fulfilled, between the dreamt and the accomplished? And, in their limbo, do these faces wait or despair? Will Godot come or will it not?
Amadeu Santos, Professor of Arts and Artist
Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2012
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Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2013
Exhibition Insominia at Centro Cultural da Câmara dos Deputados, Brasília | 2019
Acrylic on paper | 130x130cm | 2014
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Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2012
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Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2013
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Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2014
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Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2013
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Acrylic on paper | 150x150cm | 2013
Private Collection – Centro Cultural Câmara dos Deputados, Brasília
Insomnia exhibition montage at Centro Cultural da Câmara dos Deputados at Brasília
Insomnia, then.
And we spectators, if we gaze at theses gazes and at what they gaze at, will we leave unscathed from this place where the faces grow mighty, inquiring? And does one clarify a before and an after in the work of the artist, after these “Insomnia”? So many questions…
Exhibition Frágil Colmeia at Capela Santa Catarina, Sardoal | 2016