ALL THAT IS MATTER
2015

exhibited at:
“Eu não sei dizer mais" / 
“I can’t say more” 
Sara Rodrigues solo show
Sismógrafo, Porto
August 2015


All That is Matter
Double video projection 
(16:9, colour 40’)
loud speakers (4.0 surround, 40’)

glasses, water jug, table, 
wall residue

All attention is put on the elements, in particular water, as it also invades the gallery space with a table being activated through various actions, from the simple gesture of drinking water to the daily register of the weather forecast and news. Gaston Bachelard’s ‘Water and Dreams: An essay on the imagination of matter’ (1942) is brought back to lifereassessing how intimate the relationship between matter and the psyche is.
The piece begins with a shot of hands manipulating clay, in a picturesque outdoor texture, moving to the interior of a domestic house and escaping to a Faustian construction site before bursting into a seascape doubled up with Neptune carved in stone. Starting with physical human actions the videos expand to mistylandscapes with a final view of the earth from above voiced-over by an airhostess.Sounds taken from field recording are also interrupted by vocal chants which reminisce mundane songs referring to the various elements.

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