A lamp lights the room intermittently, between total luminosity and its absence. The variations in luminosity and colour that occur make possible various forms of perception of the space and of the works exhibited, paintings of imaginary landscapes.

The passage between visual gauging and the loss of the coordinates of retinal perception evokes a transition between the public externalisation and the private internalisation of the body. The light exposes the movements and the discursive gestural formation before the other; the darkness, although it may denote a certain degree of discomfort, makes room for the expansion of the intimate and for moments of introspection, interrupting the incessant need to calibrate bodily behaviours and rational structures before the other.

It is in the intervals between these two positions that the viewer’s phenomenological reflection unfolds, both from the observation and reflection of the exhibited works, and in the inflection of these as platforms of power to the imagination, keeping open the resonances between both.

[Pedro Gonçalves]

BÁRBARA BULHÃO

Bárbara Bulhão (Évora, 1992) Lives and works in Lisbon. Completed her degree in Sculpture at the University of Évora (2013), her Masters in Sculpture Studies at FBAUL (2015). Attended the Independent Study Programme Maumaus – School of Visual Arts, in Lisbon (2016). Exhibited in various spaces, nationally and internationally, including: Galeria Valbom (Lisbon); Tomaz Hipólito Studio (Lisbon); Museu das Artes (Sintra); Zaratan (Lisbon); Kolder (Gant); Budapest Galéria (Budapest).