On November 9, at 3 pm, Pivô will open Room, solo show by Daniel Albuquerque. The exhibition is part of the Hello.Again program, in which original projects by early-career artists are presented at the institution’s reception, a 70m2 display window on the ground floor of the Copan building. Albuquerque will explore the potentialities of the space to continue his research on the implications of the use of fabric as a poetic raw material.

Room will present a series of knitting pieces supported by weight-tensioned chains hanging from the ceiling to the floor. The vertical and horizontal lines that make up the composition are distorted by the force relation created by the distinct materials that constitute its parts. According to Albuquerque, subjected to the conditions of space and gravity, knitting can be understood as a present body, but also as an index of its making process.

Called Quartos (bedrooms), the works in this series address the problem of spatial perspective as a cultural construction that guides our gaze. After all, is the way we see the world intrinsic to vision or do we learn to see it that way? Albuquerque is interested in exploring the different perceptions provoked in Pivô’s reception area: a display window, a place that is in an intermediate position between exterior and interior. Besides, the knitting web allows us to see through it, integrating the voids into the spatial composition. For the artist, the positive (the matter) is understood as continuity of the negative of the empty space. Transparent and opaque complement each other.