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 João Ferro Martins 
 Something is rotten, 2009 

 

This series of drawings marked essentially by gesture intervention, almost in a random way, also reflects a certain dimension of human chaos, of our very existence.
This marks, scratches and shapes aim to achieve, by drying out the aesthetically calculated behaviour, the same level of roughness as the figure by them submersed.

 

 Instantaneous, 2006 

From the photographic standpoint and since photography is an activity indivisible from the dialogue on memory, this work presents itself, in that same discussion, as the lost memory, the destroyed image, unreachable.
In some of the photos you can still see the remains of the image that it had held, a bit similar to what happens with mind fragments that we accumulate and slowly become confused.
From a certain viewpoint, these scraps of paper that we keep with parts of our experience, are not more than the reminding that all the other moments that surround that image are lost forever, therefore densifying the consciousness of time. But that is precisely what we strive to avoid with these captures.
These other times, those who had never been registered will bit by bit, in our mind, transform into a formless mass and become simulacrums, distorted and ultimately, abstract as painting.

 

João Ferro Martins born in 1979 in Santarém, was graduated in Fine Arts by the School of Art and Design of Caldas da Rainha.
His work opens up discussions about significant and significance, offering a universe of relations more or less obtuse which the sum translates itself into a paradoxical universe. From construction to the use of everyday objects, the pure formalism or an exaggerated symbolism, he creates an uncomfortable atmosphere in which there are no answers or questions.
The work reveals itself in a pure and accurate way even when displaying chaos and destruction.
Lives and works in Lisbon.

 

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