COMO UMA SOMBRA QUENTE

This exhibition is the result of the end of Santiago Paredes's residency at Marmol projects in the city of Porto. The rainy days, the aroma of coffee, and the bittersweet beat of the city shaped this exhibition, which presents different experiments on visual language and the representation of ideas.

We see marble and bubble wrap figures emerging from the wall, almost like a plant growing from moisture. In the same room, images repeat themselves, and one doesn't know if it's déjà vu, if they are clones, a lack of time, or if the shadow is so crystal clear that we can't differentiate it from its original. Reflective scarlet surfaces take on the shapes of vessels; these forms that always told a story now narrate whatever is in front of them, reflecting and containing the present. The exhibition is also accompanied by a publication that brings together traces and images that Santiago collected while doing the residency.

The intention of these gathered images, like that of the exhibition in general, is not to display a finished artistic product but rather to try to convey an aroma or fragrance, the imprint of a nearby memory that becomes misty with each passing second, much like trying to remember a dream upon waking.