Exposition/Exposição
PARADISE IN STATE OF EMERGENCY
31.10. - 04.12.09 em KUBIKGALLERY, Rua da Restauração nº 2, Porto
Espaço perto de rio Douro, 5 min. de Alfandega é aberto quinta, seixta: 18:00 - 20:00 e sábado: 16:00 -20:00

http://www.kubikgallery.com/ , kubikgallery@gmail.com

Para ver e ler mais sobre a exposição, por favor visite:
To see and read more about the exhibition, please visit the link:
http://paradiseinemergency.blogspot.com/

flying fish participated in international show `projectáveis/projectables` at Bienal Mercosul in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

To see the web version of the video projection, please visit this link:
http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/projetaveis/node/9
To visit Bienal Mercosul home page, visit:
http://www.bienalmercosul.art.br/

TATRA 613-1 VB

The painting was installed on the wall next to New bridge in Bratislava, Slovakia. The work is integrated in the project "Voices from the Center" curated and created by Janeil Engelstad. The project, commemorating the fall of berlin wall and Velvet revolution in Czecholovakia, will happen in various cities in Central Europe and in USA.
To see Mariana Ribeiro (PT) contribution to the project, please visit link:
http://brook-dives-tides.blogspot.com/

regatta de blanc

I wished to paint the boat on the sea, as it is not any boat, I saw, as it is not any conrete sea, I saw, just a symbol of all. I painted it, because i missed some beauty, some simplicity in the city of London and I left it on the wall to share that with the others. I passed by bus everyday those wooden walls of abandonned modernist building: On my way to work: from immigrants neighbourhoods, around Waterlloo and southbank centre, to the luxurious heart of the city.

(Regatta de blanc is the song of The Police. There are no lyrics in this song.)

the night

This video - performance was realized with Mariana Ribeiro in Valencia, Spain. It represents a night of one couple: the physical story: dressing, undressing, watching television and sleeping. The psychicall story: dreams. Dreams are for me not just an escape of our mind into another reality, it is also time, when our mind wish to express itself directly. I used dreams of a couple, shown in a television, to express, what i wished mostly to tell, but my usuall artistic tools were not allowing it.

It is not without an importance, to peform this action on the street: to show the night - intimity life in a public space. The banality of this night story is parallel to other lives: lives of spectators too.

The guitar - improvised piece for mountains: can be the music a tool to portrait the place, to express it?
Can it be a mean to create a dialogue between man and mountain?

skiing immigrant

NO PASAR

They are trying to get inside: to pass the borders, to enter Europe. Believing in the dream of better and secure life. Some of them passing the route of Sahara, untill they reach the sea. Then they take one of those beautifull, coloured boats to sail. Possibly, hundreds of them are dying during the way. Thats hard to know, because there are no statistics.

Then the lucky ones touch the beach of Europe. And then, many of them need to return back to Africa. NO PASAR. They return just to start the new pilgrimage.

How valuable, prescious thing we have in our hands: the secure life in Europe. For somebody, thats already a vision of paradise.

I wanted to talk about that way: the travel, african immigrants are doing. It was surprising for me, how much struggle, how much risk somebody needs to pass thrugh in the 21. century.

Memory: the past... the country... the landscape of your past is written in your hands. Everyday in your new land, you wash your hands cleaning off the old land. But it is still there.

Historically the megaphone has served as tool for people who are demonstrating to express their opinions, their wishes and their needs. This work honors and commemorates that tradition. When realized, the final object will be large scale, (at least two meters). The size referencing the scope of problems on the African continent. The work should be shown in “western world”, not in Africa: its role is to speak for Africa outside of this continent. Megaphones were all the time amplifying the voices from the inside of the communities to the outside world.

There were many social problems in Africa before modern, western civilization entered the continent, but the "invasion" amplified the problems to higher scale. Western weapons, ideologies, products and media turned this world upside down. Rather than criticizing what has happened, and cannot undone, I aim to express through this work the hope that preserving historical traditions and their beauty will bring some equilibrium to the situation.

The work is a statement about the present. An exclamation point.
Inside the megaphone will be an amplifier and a microphone. It will be a working piece that will serve to everyone to express his or her opinions louder.

The performance, or just painting on the beach of FOZ in Porto, Portugal concerning the feelings of a Slovak living in Portugal . . . and how is it to ski on the sand.

trying to jump more far away, than we can see.