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Vasco Araújo

Trabalhos para nada: In memoriam, 2024
Iron table, wooden carvings, velvet fabric, paper labels with text written in sepia ink.
Texts: from various authors.
120 x 70 x 115cm

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The series 'Works for Nothing' is crossed by a vector of liminality, which is the experience of existential ambiguity, that is, the ability to live, and therefore be, in more...
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The series "Works for Nothing" is crossed by a vector of liminality, which is the experience of existential ambiguity, that is, the ability to live, and therefore be, in more than one ontological reality, being none of them. It is through the disturbance of the order of things that these works question the conditions, both human and superhuman, that precede being and perhaps condition its ethical status, thus allowing us to experience the new – that which vision and intellect do not recognize, the abstention from the referent.

Text:

XC 3068 (Unknown Fragment)

We are aware that the beings we love, and who love us, are gradually drifting away from us with each passing moment.

Your body intertwined with mine.


XC 3012 (Sofa Leg Fragment)

Although you perceive yourself still there, your essence, oriented towards the future, no longer aligns with the life you once knew, and your absence has already begun. I grasp that all of this is an illusion, akin to the rest, and that the future is but a conceptual construct.

The memory of your body is imprinted on my skin...


XC 3071 (Left Central Frieze Fragment ½)

You no longer love me. You no longer see me, perhaps you never saw me...

Ornaments, much like our garments, serve as nothing more than the outer shell of our physicality, our existence.

Do you know? We love because the solitude becomes unbearable. It is for this very reason that we fear the inevitability of death.

To love someone is not simply to want them to live, it is also to be amazed that they cease to live, as if dying were not natural.


XC 3056 (Grand Hall Ornament Fragment)

Each part of your body now stands as a poignant emotional ruin.


XC: 3038 (Left Cornice Fragment)

On the day we are born, we immediately begin to fall apart, it doesn't matter.


XC: 3039 (Frontal Portico Fragment)

Some objects that imitate organic life forms have suffered, in their own way, the equivalent of fatigue, aging, misfortune. They changed as time changes us.

Some of these modifications are constant. Do you still love me? Do you still remember me?


XC 3044 (Base of 3rd Order Box Fragment)

Recognizing a truth that often eludes us is imperative. Humanity often lacks empathy for afflictions they do not directly encounter or witness - a perpetual blindness.


XC 3086 (Ornament CD32 Fragment)

The most exquisite portraits can never substitute the dead.

All events had to unfold for us to truly see and experience, didn't they?

Now, you are liberated!

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