2021 DALILA GONÇALVES – No ouvido há labirintos e cristais EN

Dalila Gonçalves

 

No ouvido há labirintos e cristais (In the ear there are labyrinths and crystals) is the second solo exhibition of Dalila Gonçalves (Castelo de Paiva, Portugal, 1982) at the Rafael Ortiz Gallery in Seville. This exhibition explores the perceptive relations between the different pieces or devices shown, being the spectator, inevitably and necessarily, the main connection between them.

Since the beginning of human thought, numerous philosophical movements have attributed to the senses a fallacious, deceptive nature. Plato’s ontological dualism, Descartes’ persistent methodical doubt or Berkeley’s subjective idealism are some of the abundant examples in which reality is rejected as that perceived through our senses. Another example could be Kantian transcendental aesthetics. However, with Kant there is a restructuring in these approaches. In Kantian phenomenology, what is relevant is not the veracity of what is perceived, but rather the subjective experience that resides in perceptual acts themselves.

These ontological reflections help us understand Gonçalves’ work, since the artist plays with the way her pieces are revealed, with an evocative appearance that confronts the origin from which they emerge: materials that accumulate experience, materials that have become impregnated with her memory. Material memory metamorphosed into a new aesthetic aspect; the object transmuted into a work of art. A kind of objet trouvé where the experience accumulated in the object is evidenced in order to generate a narrative. To reflect this reminiscence, the artist refers to the elements that may go unnoticed in their usual state and transfers them to the focus of the viewer’s attention. The object continues to accumulate experience through a new and impetuous appearance: the capacity to be perceived from a new prism.

Likewise, in ‘No ouvido há labirintos e cristais’, Dalila Gonçalves acts as a Cartesian malin génie, arousing poetic tension through the confusion between the apparent and the evident, between what is seen and what is heard. That is, the eye can see something which it expects to make a sound, but the ear does not hear anything. The sensory expectations of the subject are frustrated and forced to generate, over this tension, new connections. As if they formed a labyrinth or a spider’s web, the different pieces of the exhibition are linked to each other and subjugated to this tension, to this poetry.

A cone made of wooden boards rises like a large gramophone, projecting into it a halo of light that reveals the fallen knots (longings of branches that never were). Despite its appearance, it does not emit any sound. In the same room, a «Sound Catcher» hangs from the ceiling, touching a crystal ball on a copper container covered with water. In the same way, an omen of sound flies over the articulation of the work, without being consummated (at least in this place). In order to elucidate the origin of the sound, one would have to go up to another space (as in Plato’s myth of the cave), where the video creation ‘Concert’ is located. The sound of the rotation of some used sandpaper is accompanied by the improvisation of a double bass. This is not only a musical eurhythm, but also an aesthetic one, since there is a formal and material harmony between the elements that interact in it. In the last space, among other elements, there are some ceramic pieces that remind us of stones, but in spite of the robustness that is perceived by their forms, they show their fragility through the light that penetrates in its interior, showing a hollow where, perhaps, sound is lodged. Or silence.

In this way, Dalila Gonçalves gives form to ‘No ouvido há labirintos e cristais’, altering the perceptive relations and propitiating new experiences, both material and relational. From the accumulated experience of the object (which is raised to the condition of a work of art), to the connections between the different pieces in this exhibition generated by the perceptual experience of the viewer. An empirical, autarkic and poetic gear with which Dalila Gonçalves invites the spectator to be a subject, to generate their own connections within the exhibition and to give these pieces future memories.

Guillermo Amaya Brenes



























SOBRE LA ARTISTA

DALILA GONÇALVES
Castelo de Paiva, 1982.
Vive y trabaja en Oporto, Portugal.

2005
Licenciatura en Artes Plásticas, especialidad Pintura. Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad de Oporto.
2008
II Edición Curso de Fotografía del Programa Gulbenkian Creatividad y Creación Artística. 
2009
Master de Enseñanza de Artes Visuales. Facultad de Bellas Artes y Facultad de Psicología. Universidad de Porto.
2010
Programa Inov-Art del Taller del artista Ignasi Aballí. Barcelona.
2011
Doctorado de Arte y Diseño. Facultad de Bellas Artes. Universidad de Porto.

EXPOSICIONES INDIVIDUALES

 2021 No ouvido há labirintos e cristais. Galería Rafael Ortiz. Sevilla, España.2020Amanhar. Galería Nordés. Santiago de Compostela, España.2019Solo Project – ZonaMACO SUR – Rodriguez Gallery. Mexico DF, México. Céu da boca, Rodríguez Gallery, Poznan, PoloniaEstampa 2019. (Solo Project) La Consciencia de las Cosas. Stand Rodríguez Gallery. Madrid, España. Sopro Seco, Fundación Marso, México DF, Mexico Nem tudo no navio se deteriora no porão. Lehmann + Silva. Oporto, Portugal.2018 Orquídeas en la mesa de billar. Centro de Arte de Alcobendas. Alcobendas, Madrid. España.2017 SP-Arte (Solo Project). Stand Galería Lamb Arts. Sao Paulo, Brasil.Artesantander 2017 (Solo Project). Stand Galería Rafael Ortiz. Santander. España. 2016Kneaded memory. Centro Cerámica Triana. Sevilla, España.The clock has no place in the woods. Galería Lamb Arts. Londres, Reino Unido.2015Cata-vento. Galería Rafael Ortiz. Sevilla, España.ARCOmadrid 2015. Stand Kubik Gallery. Madrid, España.2014Processo Circular. SUBTE. Montevideo, Uruguay.2012Procedere é Processo. Kubik Gallery. Porto, Portugal.2011760.000 segundos. Galería Caroline Pagès. Lisboa, Portugal.Lembro-me deste Sítio de Algum Lugar. Sput&nik. Porto, Portugal.2010Laboratório Irreversível.  Quarto Escuro. Porto, Portugal.2009Proscénio. Sala Poste-ite. Edificio Artes em Partes. Porto, Portugal.2008Tempus Fugit. Galería Caroline Pagès. Lisboa, Portugal.

EXPOSICIONES COLECTIVAS. Selección

2020
Paper Routes- Women to Watch. MNWA, National Museum of Women in the Arts. Washington. USA.
La mirada. Fotografías y collages. Galería Rafael Ortiz (virtual).
Nuevos cánones. Entre la escultura y la arquitectura. Galería Rafael Ortiz (virtual).
Fiat Lux: Nueva Colección Pilar Citoler. Centro de exposiciones CajaGranada Puerta Real. Granada, España.
Zona Maco. Rodríguez Gallery. México.
2019
Panorama. Imágenes de la Nueva Coleccción Pilar Citoler. Vimcorsa. Córdoba, España.
ARCOmadrid 2019. Stand Galería Rafael Ortiz. Madrid, España.
Wait Museu de Arte Moderna e Contemporânea Coleçcão Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal.
2018
SWAB Art Fair 2018. Stand Galería Rafael Ortiz. Barcelona.
Cabinet of True Horizons (how far can you see?) Rodríguez Gallery, Polonia.
Lo digerido. Espacio Dorffi. Lanzarote, España.
Sp Arte. Stand Lamb Arts Gallery. Sao Paulo, Brasil.
Art Lima. Stand Lamb Arts Gallery. Lima, Perú.
La Collection BIC. Le Centquatre-Paris. París, Francia.
Here and Elsewhere. Edificio Vizcaya. México D.F, México.
A Preto e Branco. Fundacion PLMJ, Sociedad Nacional de Belas Artes. Lisboa, Portugal.
ARCOmadrid 2018. Stand Galería Rafael Ortiz. Madrid, España.
2017
Fondation Hippcréne. Otazu Foundation Collection. París, Francia.
Urgent Perspectives #1. Projektraum Viktor Bucher. Viena, Austria.
UNTITLED, Miami Beach. Stand Galería Rafael Ortiz. Miami. USA.
ARTBO. Stand Galería Lamb Arts. Bogotá, Colombia.
JAd Bi. Stand Galería Madragoa. Lisboa, Portugal.
Quid Pro Quo. Panal 361. Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ARCOmadrid 2017. Stand Galería Rafael Ortiz. Madrid, España.

OBRAS EN MUSEOS Y COLECCIONES

Belle Époque Centrum. Blankenberge, Bélgica.
Colección Davis Museum at Wellesley College. Wellesley, Massachusetts. USA.
Colección de la Fundación PLMJ. Lisboa, Portugal.
Colección Figueiredo Ribeiro.
Colección Fundación Otazu. Navarra, España.
Colección Fundomar. Sevilla, España.
Colección Instituto IPSAR. Roma, Italia.
Colección José María Civit. Barcelona, España.
Colección Navacerrada. Cantabria, España.
Colección olorVISUAL. Barcelona, España.
Colecção António Cachola. Museu de Elvas Arte Contemporânea. Elvas, Portugal. Frances Reynolds Collection. Londres, UK.
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection. Berlín, Alemania.
Museo de la Facultad de Bellas Artes de Oporto. Portugal.
Museo al Aire Libre. Colección de Arte Público de Oporto. Portugal.
Nueva Colección Pilar Citoler. Zaragoza, España.
Water Closet 7. Lx Factory. Lisboa, Portugal.

Colecciones Particulares en Portugal, España, Alemania, Francia, Reino Unido, Bélgica, Brasil, Colombia México y USA.