Readymade Choices (RGB)
Painting
2018-2020
“(...) Sónia Carvalho’s work always stems from the performance, the look through the photograph, at times the video wich then consubstantiates in the exploration of a RGB palette in an allusion to the white-light resulting from the fusion. There is a spiriyual dimension which is inseparable from her work through which choices are sought to be made. The cube, feminine symbol holding a plural concentricity, appers here as a paradigm of female choices, once that table can be seen as a businesswoman’s desk or the central state of a kitchen. Through the evolution of color, the character appears to levitate and to depart from the most exact absolute.(...)”
Helena Mendes Pereira; catalog of the collective exhibition “New Babylons”, at Zet Gallery, Braga, 2019
Helena Mendes Pereira; catalog of the collective exhibition “New Babylons”, at Zet Gallery, Braga, 2019
“New Babylon”, 2019
Zet Gallery, Braga, Portugal
About the
Performative process.
Proto-Performance
The pictorial construction only happens after the
Performance. And it is always a result of a true inner need for bodily
experience, FOR A LIVING ACTION — performative and anthropological — for the
construction of an image. It is the represent(action) of the poetics of thataction. Therefore, a painting consists of a reflection on the experience of
the transpersonal, sensitive, intuitive body, as a pause in focus in space-time.
The contemplation couples with the act of doing, circumscribes within itself
the revelation of something hidden, something that transcends reality itself
and becomes sacred – it is the silencing of thoughts so that the wisest answer
happens, in the clear understanding of a “vision”.
Performative process photo registration about readymade choices, 2018