A shot. Drrrrrrhhh. A line. Drrrrrrrhhhh.
Like gunshots, all in the same direction.
Gestures that trample the marks on the paper; but after the first shot, a new crack appears.
Let’s not fool ourselves. Beatriz is once again trying to stage something, a new territory perhaps, a catastrophe that unfolds throughout the exhibition.
First comes the drawing, on paper and in graphite, sometimes in marker or ballpoint pen, then digital manipulation, printed acetate, overhead projection, redrawing on the canvas with dozens of permanent markers, and finally the texture of wool pressed onto the canvas.
Fricção Científica (Science friction) is a balance between intention and accident, the interval between the line that is chosen and the one that overlaps the previous one. The lines do what they want. One pushes the other, which pushes the other—they betray the source.
Creative deformations, unearthing perceptions and processes, the image as an unstable entity. It is abstraction as a slow and material intelligence. A commitment to the unsettling and the incomprehensible, a practice structured in a form of aesthetic geology, not only in its motif, but beyond that; in the transformation of the works into a layered record of thought, an architecture of time and pressure.
Adapted from the text bt João Francisco Reis and Rafael dos Santos.
