JENSEITS

Opening: Saturday May 30, 2009 at 6 pm

JENSEITS
A group show by Nuno da Luz, André Romão, Gonçalo Sena and André Sousa
From May 30 until June 20, 2009

JENSEITS is a group show by the Portuguese artists Nuno da Luz (1984), André Romão (1984), Gonçalo Sena (1984) and André Sousa (1980), with works in drawing, sculpture, sound and video.

With the aim of creating a single installation, the different artists’ works come together in an intense dialogue, blurring the notion of objecthood and the limits they impose on one another.
Following on from a structured spatial division/occupation, based on the multiple layers this kind of blurring and interplay generates, the exhibition contains its own negative, reflecting its duality and amplifying what the space’s identity is, both in its architectural sense and its more social function as a project room/studio. In the end, the project contains in itself all the plurality of definitions that the actual word JENSEITS can gather, from openly referring to a space of action as well as the ungraspable [or: unattainable].

Gonçalo Sena’s work stems from research on the architecture of space, which is the context of the show with three other artists, and how the work can function in order to receive and deal with their works. The T-shaped graphite column draws a spatial division in the gallery, projecting itself visually on the limits of the room, working as a structural interior of an invisible fake wall, or a sculpture on its own.

André Sousa shows a three element piece using drawing and sculpture. His work takes part in the reorganization of the room after Sena’s piece and populates it with codified references to reality/urban space, recalling notions of value and visibility in the social and artistic sphere.

Nuno da Luz tackles the prevalent systems of expenditure and economy of knowledge in the exhibition space: {[(8-h ? 24-h × 6 ? 24-h) ?total 19 days of work] + 5-h extra} ? 157-h of necessary work.
This amount of work and labour will eventually lead to the construction of a live sound piece that will feed the expended energy back to the site.

André Romão works from Hölderlin’s Hyperion (1797-1799) to try to settle the conceptual basis for a perfect state. Part of an ongoing project, his video, Nothing lasts forever, departs from two moments in the narrative, when Hyperion travels to and from the battlefronts, where a failed revolution had attempted to implement a metaphysical state on earth.


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