Descida às águas (Descent Into Water) deals with presence, cyclicality, and regeneration through building fictions and material experimentations. Developed and created with Fábio Araújo, the project explores the remnants of a performative action carried out near the source of the Vez river in Portugal. .
Materials: wood, HD monitor, engraved copper plate, water from location, tree branch from location, cotton cloth, drawings by Fábio Araújo.
Installation views: Centro Commercial Invictus, group exhibition Preludio, 2019.
A cloaked figure struggles upstream, clutching an object engraved with arcane instructions. As the journey progresses the video footage transitions between different generations of re-photography.
