SUSANA
ROCHA
PARALLAX
Solo exhibition | National Society of Fone Arts, September/October 2022
Blinsided #2, 2022
Zinc plate and acrylic
78x62x30 + 113x104x3 cm
Eye of the beholder, 2022
Marble e silicone
26x32x6 cm
Anywhere the wind blows, 2022
Lacquered iron and acrylic
260x35x125 cm
Twist #1, 2022
Lacquered iron
40x100x45 cm
Twist #2, 2022
Lacquered iron
57x110x37 cm
At first sight, 2022
Chair structure, inflatable ball and clamps
65x65x75 cm
Crossed gaze, 2022
Plastic,, acrylic and silicone
75x90x5 cm
Twist #3, 2022
Lacquered iron
20x15x28 cm
PARALLAX: “Difference in the apparent position of an object relative to a background,
as seen by observers at different locations or by an observer in motion”
PARALLAX is a project that freely explores the “errors of vision”, through pictorial and sculptural objects that force the spectator to move, transposing the idea of distortion and visual perspective to a wider universe: a metaphor for the human experience and the mistakes it entails.
Without looking for the mere verification or reproduction of visual disorders, the works which are part of PARALLAX seek to question what we assume as certain, observable, reliable, or stable... with the certainty that in life entropy is the evident trend.
Exploring deviations and setbacks, but also discoveries and the enchantment of the gaze, the exhibition proposes a straying understanding of the human need to move forward; to discover new positions without the comfort of predictability.
Form, the rational stronghold of artistic practice, asserts itself as a challenge, allying with color as a provocation of the senses. Even so, the works are born from minimal gestures, in the search for resonance within the retina of those who observe them - a look also evoked as a formal reference.
Contradicting a narrow formalism, I look for the poetics of concepts and the possibility of extrapolation, which the character of each title also encloses.
TEXT: SUSANA ROCHA