Tension
2024, installation with balloons and wire, 300 cm in diameter.
In the dialectical balance between the strong and the weak, the soft and the hard, the fragile and the energetic; lies the series of works titled: Tensão, a set of works that establish a deep tension between the inflated balloon and the barbed wire that holds it. The softness is a sarcastic way of viewing all models of assisted violence, structured upon the insightful norms of the established.
The fragility of the sphere refers, on one hand, to the sweetness of innocence, but also to the minefields that, with a single touch, can explode the passing subject; while the barbed wire semantically always leads us to the field of reflection subjected to axes of hate separation and xenophobia. Behind a barbed wire, there will always be a subjugated and oppressed subject. After Auschwitz and Birkenau, behind a barbed wire, there will always be injustice and pain.
