Eu era gases puro, ar, espaço vazio, tempo
Limited edition
33 copies + AP
produced in collaboration with
CIAP | JESTER | FLACC, Genk
mountaincutters, Angyvir Padilla & Daniel Steegmann Mangrané
May 2022
A collective edition marking the dissolution of the transformative exhibition Three Tropes for Entropy, the outcome of the Lichen Curatorial Prize 2021-22, organized by JESTER (former FLACC/CIAP). This final gesture of launch introduced an indetermination to the exhibition process, which had no fixed end date but keeps existing in different forms, like molecules of gas once compressed into a condensed space, suddenly freed into the ambient.
The collective edition includes three printed pieces. Created by Angyvir Padilla, mountaicutters and Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, all prints stem from the textual practice embedded in the artists' processes:
- Executed in reflective, translucent ink and supplemented with a handmade match that activates the reflection effect in the dark, the silkscreen print by Angyvir Padilla borrows verses from the poetry of Argentinian writer Alejandra Pizarnik. The final result is a print that can be activated as an instalative piece.
- The inkjet prints by mountaincutters were presented in the exhibition - first in Jester's exhibition space and later moved to C-mine's compressor's hall for the second trope of the exhibition. Every print carries a unique poem written by the artist duo and is supplemented with magnets for hanging.
- Executed in graphite ink, the recto-verso silkscreen print by Daniel Steegmann Mangrané shows an excerpt originally from Stella do Patrocínio's oral poetry, defined by her as acts of gabbling. Compulsorily admitted into a mental asylum, Stella do Patrocínio was a maker of poems that were never written down but took visual form through the interpretation of Steegmann Mangrané. Mirrored, oblique, fractured, and incised, the typography chosen by the artist remains translucent and void—as light as thin air, like gas, as the empty space and time evoked by the self-description of Stella do Patrocínio.
All silkscreen pieces are exquisitely printed by Camping Penrose / Liselotte van Daele.
𝘓𝘪𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘻𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘴, 𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘴𝘩𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 Jester (former FLACC/CIAP) 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘦𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘊𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘵 𝘒𝘈𝘚𝘒 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘭 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘨𝘪𝘶𝘮. 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘦𝘯𝘬, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 Jester 𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳𝘴.