c. l. salvaro: spike art magazine / liste expedition
Antes de afundar, flutua, trabalho de C. L. Salvaro, é destaque no site da Liste com texto inédito assinado por Guilherme Teixeira. O ensaio é parte de uma série promovida pela Spike Art Magazine, que convidou autores de todo o mundo para escreverem sobre artistas de sua escolha a partir do universo da Liste Expedition.
Apresentado pela Central em 2021, Antes de afundar, flutua esteve aberto para visitação em São Paulo e também de forma online na programação da Liste Showtime – através da qual o artista recebeu o prêmio Impact da fundação Eckenstein-Geigy.
"Something floats in this environment, takes up all the rooms, descends from each and every wall, graces the plants, houses the birds and the fungi, points toward the future of our species using its own ruin and debris as surface, ignores our attempts of maintenance, attaches itself to our lungs and our hair, whispers old tales of domestic existence into our ears, ignores the way we manipulate matter – or at least the way we believe we do. It looks deep into our ways, negotiates how our bodies inhabit it, defaces any attempt of representation, shouts to us in a silent language that there’s much to be said about water, time, and geometry’s intention towards surface and space. And yet, there’s nothing our species can do to minimise the inherent bluntness with which this environment reclaims every regulatory quest we perform by only allowing us the potential of a false desire for it. An everlasting task of reclamation."
// Guilherme Teixeira