SKELETON ARCHITECTURE

If poetry is at the heart of the dialogue between the works, it is far from the image of calculated verse written delicately pen in hand.

The need to express hereditary burdens is sensed in the writing in its physical form. In Leonor Parda’s video (Um gosto metálico por baixo da lingua, [a metallic taste under the tongue] 2022), a cut-up of images is voiced over by the artist’s voice – a stream of consciousness as the artist has a ritual of walking at night whilst recording her voice long before transcribing these thoughts. It is “between passion and poison,” to borrow the words of the artist, which evoke the oscillation of the film between desire, fantasy and nightmare. Language and form serve thus as prisms through which one digests trauma – whether it be individual, familial, communal.