SANS IMAGE
VPF Gallery, Lisbon
25 Sep – 8 Nov 2008
25 Sep – 8 Nov 2008
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An Interview
Int: Why do you call this show (Sans Image) a group show since it is in fact a one-person exhibition?
AC: Because images are appropriated, they're briefly mine, maybe never. And soon never again... they are randomly taken from History and then back to its tracks.
Int: And, why Sans Image? Are you driven towards the anonymous?
AC: Not really… Sans Image refers to a lack of reference and a frustration in pinning down the world through images, our substitute for language and a potential place for creativity… if/when it happens.
It is a show about nothing, actually. A meditation…
Int: On the impossibility of clearly expressing oneself…
AC: Well, more or less. The impossibility of not being able to express oneself through the boring task of coherence…
Int: I see…
AC: I think images, like most families, are dysfunctional although they gather like particles – it is a mystery.
Int: And you are also attracted by this magnetism.
AC: I am. I see painting through this perspective – images have different dynamics, like quantum physics! I am attracted to images I don’t quite understand – images that devolve some mystery or just strangely relate to your actual thoughts.
Int: Thank you!
AC: My pleasure.
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ANA CARDOSO
SANS IMAGE
VPF Gallery, Lisbon
25 Sep – 8 Nov 2008
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