Time trappers: October 15th - Porto, 2022
Alice Prestes
@aliceinanyland
@aliceinanyland
Maria Carlos Cardeiro
@mariacarloscardeiro
Salvador Pombo
@salvadorpombo
Clepsydra is an exhibition made to rethink time patterns. From the greek word klepsydra, translated as water thief, would later give meaning to the first known device for time measuring - whose function was driven by gravity and water. At this display the water thief becomes a thief of life.
First and foremost, it arises from a tempo distortion felt by the artists at the height of their confinement, when times were still but restless therefore never ran so fast, perhaps due to our own impatience.
This new reality took them to childhood nostalgia: how time feels at that age, when time itself is always late and moving in a pace of wonder that shatters when we reach adulthood. Quickly goes from belated turns hurried. Sooner or later we feel it sliding before our eyes just like water in a clepsydra cylinder.
As a way of telling a story over time, the counter of a common clock provides the logic for the pieces presented here. Through its twelve sections and an illustrated tone, this collective explores our inevitable future.
Check the full exhibition colleCtion HERE
Maria Carlos Cardeiro
Time trappers 01 | 02 | 3 | 04
Time trappers 01 | 02 | 3 | 04
30X40cm, digital illustration,
giclée print on PC Velvet 270g/m2 paper.
giclée print on PC Velvet 270g/m2 paper.
Time travel is not possible, yet! But there are objects that make us travel for seconds into the past, some of them are kept treasures, others are saved in drawers of an unbroken "mental closet". These 4 illustration series are pure nostalgia, like digging up a time capsule from the 90's, where sapphires, gold and silver are plastic, paper, sugar and rocks.
It's quite impressive the attraction and attachment I had for the colors, shapes and functionality of these objects and today it is as if they recorded "frames" of play time, conquests and experiences.
As we grow we find new objects, but they start losing their ability to hold time. Images and pictures still have that power, but the objects are becoming more disposable. Which makes the old objects more valuable.
However, like any treasure, this collection comes with a curse, reflecting a person who (in her innocence and young age) kept animals in cages, ate tons of sugar, loved the plastic smell and had different ideas from today. But that's the magic of TIME - the fact that it traps what we define as good and evil, and let us decide what to take with us to the present and what to keep locked.
