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Exhibition
"The Unsettling" - Paloma Bosquê @ Hello.Again
29/08 - 19/12/15
Free
TUE - FRI: 1pm - 8pm, SAT: 1pm - 7pm

The third edition of Hello.Again presents Paloma Bosquê’sO Incômodo’ (The Unsettling).

Curatorial Text

The artist occupies Pivô’s ground floor with a series of sculptures made of brass, lead and rosin – the residual vegetable resin obtained after the distillation of turpentine.

By Fernanda Brenner

Bosquê has been working with this resin for a while, studying its handling and testing its limits. Rosin is classified as an amorphous solid, that is, a variation of a solid state without a defined geometrical form and with a random atomic arrangement. Taking the material’s physical presence as a departure point, the artist takes on an unfathomable challenge: to propose certain geometry to the rosin’s internal lack of order.

 Heated rosin can be easily shaped so the artist experimented with different moulds, organising the material in rectangular blocks scattered around the space, supported by brass structures and under heavy lead sheets. These materials, with such distinct properties, continuously negotiate with each other and with the venue’s architecture.

 Over time, the rosin blocks settle – or unsettle – onto their supports, reacting to their weight, taking on their contours and delicately shaping themselves, and – in due course – onto each situation proposed by the artist. The friction between the organisation of brass and lead, gravity and the rosin’s instability places these sculptures exactly where stillness meets movement: in a silent restlessness that can only be observed through time.

 ‘O Incômodo’ unfolds in its duration. The subtle movement of the rosin blocks challenges the dimensions of space and is only revealed to an attentive gaze, such as in Heraclitus’ famous fragment: ‘changing, it rests’.

Artist
Paloma Bosquê

Her research draws largely on her daily practice in the studio. There she handles and freely associates materials that are not typical of sculpture, creating compositions of varying formats and scales. In a constant search for a possible and consensual balance between her selected elements, the artist often develops specific methods to combine, juxtapose and merge materials without ever forcing them to a definitive interaction. Experimenting with the texture, weight and balance of her materials, Bosquê creates extremely delicate visual landscapes that explore the transience of matter and impermanence. Her works remind us of the fragility of the agreements that hold together everything we consider permanent or definitive.

 

Her most recent solo exhibitions include In the Hot Sun of a Christmas Day, Mendes Wood DM, NY (2019), O Oco e a Emenda, Pavilhão Branco, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon (2017); Field, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo (2016); O Incômodo, Pivô, São Paulo (2015). Additionally, her work has been included in institutional group exhibitions as the Brasile. Il Coltello Nella Carne, Pac – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan (2018); Bienal de Coimbra, Coimbra (2017); Mycorial Theatre, Pivô, São Paulo (2016); Projeto Piauí, Pivô, São Paulo (2016); Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist, The Jewish Museum, New York (2016); United States of Latin America, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit (2015).

 

http://www.palomabosque.com/

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