Otelo M. F.
Chama Xamânica Shamanic Call
18 Feb - 15 Apr 2017
OTELO M. F.
Chama Xamânica Shamanic Call
18 February - 15 April 2017
Curator: Nuno Faria
The exhibition presents an extensive display of the work of Otelo M. F. (Almancil, 1974). Drawing, objects and sculpture form the central core of an oeuvre in which performance and ritual have become established as the principal means for conducting energies, summoning presences and articulating materialities. Animism, primitivism, shamanism, metamodernism and the Anthropocene are fields of operative knowledge that the artist calls upon in his work, frequently moved by a sense of disappointment and the feeling of the irreversible loss of a world on the brink of environmental collapse that has lost its links with the spirit of the earth and the knowledge cultivated by our ancestors. Movement, metamorphosis, transitoriness, restoring ideas that have no body, gathering and reusing materials that are frequently treated as waste, establishing unaccustomed connections or dialogues between materials and forms, are key words in a wide-ranging practice, underlining the principle that "artistic work serves to reclaim our spiritual existence".
Chama Xamânica Shamanic Call
18 February - 15 April 2017
Curator: Nuno Faria
The exhibition presents an extensive display of the work of Otelo M. F. (Almancil, 1974). Drawing, objects and sculpture form the central core of an oeuvre in which performance and ritual have become established as the principal means for conducting energies, summoning presences and articulating materialities. Animism, primitivism, shamanism, metamodernism and the Anthropocene are fields of operative knowledge that the artist calls upon in his work, frequently moved by a sense of disappointment and the feeling of the irreversible loss of a world on the brink of environmental collapse that has lost its links with the spirit of the earth and the knowledge cultivated by our ancestors. Movement, metamorphosis, transitoriness, restoring ideas that have no body, gathering and reusing materials that are frequently treated as waste, establishing unaccustomed connections or dialogues between materials and forms, are key words in a wide-ranging practice, underlining the principle that "artistic work serves to reclaim our spiritual existence".