IF A TREE FALLS IN A FOREST AND NO ONE IS AROUND TO HEAR IT, DOES IT MAKE A SOUND?, 2019
Giclée prints on silk, 90 x 60 cm,
group exhibition ‘Linhas de Vento — Percursos artísticos na Natureza’
Galeria Municipal de Matosinhos (PT)
25.11.2022 — 23.04.2023
group exhibition ‘LOSS OF AURA’
Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Porto (PT)
05.03 — 07.05.2022
group exhibition ‘A Fluid Space’
Great Art Space Gallery, Shenzhen (CN)
19.10 — 24.11.2019
/ Collection of Fundação de Serralves
Giclée prints on silk, 90 x 60 cm,
installation, variable dimensions.
group exhibition ‘Linhas de Vento — Percursos artísticos na Natureza’
Galeria Municipal de Matosinhos (PT)
25.11.2022 — 23.04.2023
group exhibition ‘LOSS OF AURA’
Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Porto (PT)
05.03 — 07.05.2022
group exhibition ‘A Fluid Space’
Great Art Space Gallery, Shenzhen (CN)
19.10 — 24.11.2019
/ Collection of Fundação de Serralves
The title of the work alludes to the philosophical thought experiment which questions whether the human perception interfere in changing reality. Does reality continue to exist, even when no one is looking?
The images are photographs taken using Google Earth’s platform which showed the digital landscape of the Amazon Forest in Brazil, just as it was represented at the time - summer of 2019 - when there were huge fires being put in the forest due to the interests of the livestock industry and the exploration of the land for soy plantations.
Printed on silk — an organic material made by silkworms — these images make use of a material that, in order to be profitable, requires to kill the animals which produce it.
Giclée prints on silk, 90 x 60 cm,
View of the work in ‘A Fluid Space’ at Great Art Space Gallery, Shenzhen. (2019)
Giclée print on silk, 108 x 182 cm,
View of the work in ‘LOSS OF AURA’ at Pedro Oliveira Gallery, Porto. (2023)
