Out of Sight, Out of Mind

(2020)

Out of Sight, Out of Mind takes as its starting point places that remain difficult or virtually impossible to reach, whether through geographical isolation, political restriction, spiritual significance or the limits of human access. Known through coordinates, maps and images but rarely encountered directly, these locations occupy an ambiguous space between geographical fact and fiction, sustaining the fantasy of somewhere beyond the problems of the inhabited world.

The exhibition confronts this fantasy with the impossibility of complete escape. Point Nemo, the most remote location in the Pacific Ocean, for instance, contains traces of microplastic pollution despite its extreme isolation. Moving between references to distant sites and the physical conditions of the gallery itself, Out of Sight, Out of Mind considers remoteness as both a spatial condition and an escapist projection — and asks whether anywhere can remain truly outside the systems we might wish to leave behind.

Location

Balcony, Lisbon

Dates

2020

Materials / media

Acrylic resin, pigments, mixed textiles, found wood, rubber-coated steel U-bolts, acrylic paint, industrial floor paint, rope and marble aggregate.

Photo Credits

Pedro MA Faria

Developed in collaboration with Ana Vidigal, Forrado takes Madeira’s landscape and microclimate as a starting point for thinking about the relationship between nature, perception and control.

Through textile works that move between painting and object, weather becomes a way of addressing uncertainty, hesitation and the desire to predict what cannot be controlled. Colour, stitching, layering and exposed construction bring surface and structure together, while the island’s persistent cloud cover becomes both subject and condition — something observed, interpreted and waited upon.

Developed in collaboration with Ana Vidigal, Forrado takes Madeira’s landscape and microclimate as a starting point for thinking about the relationship between nature, perception and control.