Sophie Whettnall
08 Nov - 06 Dec 2008
SOPHIE WHETTNALL
“Endless landscape”
Vera Cortês, Art Agency
Private View: 7th November 10 PM
From the 8th November to the 6th December
Tuesdays to Fridays from 11 AM to 7 PM
Saturdays from 3 PM to 8 PM
The work of Sophie Whettnall is a practice that confers visibility, matter, to the forces that surreptitiously inhabit the vital places that compose our relationship with the world – places that require a flexibility of affections, opening a space for the development of a certain time between images and sensations, in order to be inhabited. This is a time in which the secret takes place and recreates, into movement, our relationship with images. One could speak, simultaneously, of an infinitely small, almost invisible, and of a whispering grandness that presents itself as force of life – a specific and detailed nature made into an interior landscape, an internal gaze, a subtle occurrence. In “Endless Landscape”, Nature is offered to us in its most ambiguous power, provocative – the mountain, stratification of geological layers that present us the coexistence of times in continuous metamorphosis – human matter turned into geological evidence, a time in-between – pure force. This particular specific nature is offered to us by Whettnall in the form of a vital matter in tension, a principle of searching for another nature – a nature between two, in which artifice assumes an almost demiurgical role. Video, photography, drawing, painting – the mountain gains a nomadic force that comes up in each medium in an absolutely singular materiality. The matter between the human and the geological is here receptivity and bifurcation – it reveals itself as a latent principle in the things themselves – a dense lava that is discovered layer by layer. In this exhibition, Sophie Whettnall allows us to recuperate old discussions about what nature is, or what is to collect it, or to capture it. However, what is important is, above all, this singular proposition around the possibility of feeling a nature – the possibility of, in looking at a mountain, submerging ourselves into a certain and subtle respiration of completeness, of finding in our own breath the imperceptible movements of a geology that is about to become – the subtle vibrations that move us, and that return us to the world whilst affections – bodies-synthesis of time. And drawing happens like an intensive topography of the rhythm of the encounter.
Cíntia Gil
“Endless landscape”
Vera Cortês, Art Agency
Private View: 7th November 10 PM
From the 8th November to the 6th December
Tuesdays to Fridays from 11 AM to 7 PM
Saturdays from 3 PM to 8 PM
The work of Sophie Whettnall is a practice that confers visibility, matter, to the forces that surreptitiously inhabit the vital places that compose our relationship with the world – places that require a flexibility of affections, opening a space for the development of a certain time between images and sensations, in order to be inhabited. This is a time in which the secret takes place and recreates, into movement, our relationship with images. One could speak, simultaneously, of an infinitely small, almost invisible, and of a whispering grandness that presents itself as force of life – a specific and detailed nature made into an interior landscape, an internal gaze, a subtle occurrence. In “Endless Landscape”, Nature is offered to us in its most ambiguous power, provocative – the mountain, stratification of geological layers that present us the coexistence of times in continuous metamorphosis – human matter turned into geological evidence, a time in-between – pure force. This particular specific nature is offered to us by Whettnall in the form of a vital matter in tension, a principle of searching for another nature – a nature between two, in which artifice assumes an almost demiurgical role. Video, photography, drawing, painting – the mountain gains a nomadic force that comes up in each medium in an absolutely singular materiality. The matter between the human and the geological is here receptivity and bifurcation – it reveals itself as a latent principle in the things themselves – a dense lava that is discovered layer by layer. In this exhibition, Sophie Whettnall allows us to recuperate old discussions about what nature is, or what is to collect it, or to capture it. However, what is important is, above all, this singular proposition around the possibility of feeling a nature – the possibility of, in looking at a mountain, submerging ourselves into a certain and subtle respiration of completeness, of finding in our own breath the imperceptible movements of a geology that is about to become – the subtle vibrations that move us, and that return us to the world whilst affections – bodies-synthesis of time. And drawing happens like an intensive topography of the rhythm of the encounter.
Cíntia Gil