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Title: 20 eyes

Year: 2020 / 2021

black room or tent, painted polyurethane foam, plastic eyes and skulls, rotative system, lanterns, sound

Keywords: cinetic art; Plato’s cave; cosmic horror; rupestrian art; existentialism; death; lighthouse; symbolism; archive; body horror; occult; surrealism

20 Eyes was presented in 2020 at Oficina Arara (Porto) and in 2021 at Vila Flor Palace (Guimarães), as part of the collective exhibition 'Movimentos Bruxos'. It is an installation built around a central piece: a light-emitting, visceral sculpture that, with its rotating movement, illuminates the walls of a dark room (2020) or tent (2021). The walls are completely covered with hundreds of symbols and drawings, but due to the small size of the light sources, the viewer is never given the possibility to grasp the full extent of the drawings. It was accompanied by a drone musical piece composed on a Yamaha keyboard.