Poems of Tomorrow: João Motta Guedes
Opening 31 January 4 – 8 PM
Poems of Tomorrow is João Motta Guedes’ first solo exhibition with Galeria Francisco Fino.
An arrow cuts across the space-time continuum and lands on a clock, where many have landed before, punctuating time like a dartboard — each arrow a poem of tomorrow. Time is struck, held, suspended. Tomorrow is always arriving, full of propositions and possibilities. What do the poems of tomorrow bring us today?
For Motta Guedes, poetry is not a reference but a method — a way of seeing, thinking, and making. His sculptures and installations are fabricated from metal, bronze, stone, and shattered glass: hard, sharp, sometimes luminous forms through which intimacy nonetheless insists on surfacing.
That intimacy is not sentimental but charged. Love, vulnerability, freedom, and violence move through the work as entangled forces, approached with a kind of hopeless romanticism about the human condition — an attachment to intensity and exposure, and to the belief that feeling is relational, and therefore political.
Poems of Tomorrow traces an inner journey that opens toward collective experience. Travel unfolds not as arrival but as becoming. Perception loosens; emotion moves outward. Tomorrow is carried forward by desire and imagination. — Mariana Lemos
