Fernanda Gomes: Galeria Luisa Strina

so many exhibition plans! i like to imagine and project, even more because it always comes out different. each exhibition includes many others, lived during the whole process.

an exhibition is the best scenario for testing, where possibilities expand. and the public dimension brings a complementary tension to the ease of doing at home. it brings the need of concluding, even in the sense of finish, to define the final version of several provisionals, in every detail. it requires synthesis and precision.
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(would the exhibition stand for the studio as writing stand for thought?)

the exhibitions i do at galeria luisa strina are where i most naturally update my practice, they are a direct extension of the studio. it is the best and the most difficult situation to show my work,  harder because better.

an exhibition has always been for me a unique way of advancing the research, absolutely necessary to all the processes, especially the mental. the act excites the thought.

an exhibition is a concentrated, retroprospective moment. the present includes the past and the future, they are almost simultaneous in the instant.
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an exhibition goes beyond the assembled works. the whole is more than the sum of the parts. an exhibition is more than a work in itself, it is one among infinite possibilities. positively incomplete, it lingers in the imagination. it is end and endless, beginning and continuation.

fernanda gomes, october 2017
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