installation, 35mm slide projection, stage and chair

Exhibited in Figuras do Novo Império (group exhibition), in abandoned office building, downtown Porto, Portugal (2014)

Exploring the cinema and theater apparatus, the virtual image of an audience (projected as a single 35mm slide) depicts the artists of the exhibition sitting and watching. This virtual audience faces an empty stage, where the sentence “Il cinema è un’invenzione senza avvenire” (Cinema is an invention without a future) is written. The quote is taken from Godard’s film Le Mépris, where it appears inscribed beneath a screen.

A chair invites the audience to sit, their backs turned to the artists, encouraging them to experience an invisible show: the empty stage and the impossibility of seeing, while blinded by the light.

Figuras do Novo Império was a self-organized exhibition, together with artists Horácio Frutuoso, João Pedro Trindade, De Almeida e Silva and Tiago Alexandre.