TORRE DE MADEIRA [2017]

GALERIA DO MUSEU DA CARRIS [Lisbon, Portugal]
Text by Mara Silvério
Ana Velez | Joana Gomes | Maria Sassetti | Xana Sousa

"A shared construction like a permanent verb
kujenga, Swahili dialect alive from the love to build
a dynamic and efficient feeling that grows and divides
into four heads, four hearts, four souls
ferments, leavens and rises
incorporating the uncertainty of the final move.
The more it grows, the easier it is to self-destruct
falling by the harmonic enormity of its size
fifty-four blocks three times longer in length
compared to its timid width that distinguishes itself
in the dry and audible fall, like a beating pulse
                            - accelerated -
when someone is missed or appears without warning
when someone assumes a rationale on departure
which will affect the logic of the next, the removal of the fragile part
a future crisscrossed by hands and watchful eyes
who are waiting for the next step.
Because a game will always be the reflection of feelings
and feelings will always be the consequence of a game
parts of blocks that are removed in a manifestation of will
by change and growth like an eternal friendship."

Mara Silvério