The Colors Remain The Same After The Sequence
Bartolomeu Santos
[08/04/21 - 09/05/21]
Future Memories I-XXI, 2020
Instantaneous photographs, canson paper 400gr, painter’s tape Instantaneous photographs, paper, painter’s tape, graphite
32,5×24,5 cm – Each
Future Memories I-XXI, 2020
Instantaneous photographs, canson paper 400gr, painter’s tape Instantaneous photographs, paper, painter’s tape, graphite
32,5×24,5 cm – Cada
Exhibition View
In Media Res I, 2021
Sponge, Jewish bitumen, slate paint, acrylic paint, stained paint, ecoline, acrylic
16,5×11,5×06,5 cm
In Media Res II, 2021
Sponge, Jewish bitumen, slate paint, acrylic paint, stained paint, ecoline, acrylic
19x14x06,7 cm
Not Being Here I, 2020
Acrylic marker and slate paint on water-repellent mdf
168×130 cm
In Media Res III, 2021
Sponge, Jewish bitumen, slate paint, acrylic paint, stained paint, ecoline, acrylic
18x13x07 cm
Exhibition View
Inside Skin I-V, 2020
Jewish bitumen and slate paint on sandpaper mounted on dibond
28×23 cm – Cada
Exhibition View of The Colors Remain The Same After The Sequence at Foco gallery, 2021
Not Being Here II, 2020
Acrylic marker and slate paint on water-repellent mdf
168×130 cm
Exhibition View
Under Construction, 2021
Rose, nylon
Variable Dimensions
Under Construction, 2020
Rose, bricks
Variable Dimensions
In Media Res VI, 2021
Sponge, Jewish bitumen, slate paint, acrylic paint, stained paint, ecoline, acrylic
18×14,5×15 cm
Exhibition View
Not Being Here III & IV, 2020
Acrylic marker and slate paint on canvas
59,5×80 cm | 110,5×89 cm
In Media Res V, 2021
Sponge, Jewish bitumen, slate paint, acrylic paint, stained paint, ecoline, acrylic
18x13x07 cm
Exhibition View
Not Being Here VI, 2020
Acrylic marker and slate paint on water-repellent mdf
168×134 cm
In Media Res VII, 2021
Sponge, Jewish bitumen, slate paint, acrylic paint, stained paint, ecoline, acrylic
16,5×11,5×06,5 cm
Exhibition View
Not Being Here V, 2020
Acrylic marker and slate paint on canvas
22×27 cm
Exhibition View
In Media Res IV, 2021
Sponge, Jewish bitumen, slate paint, acrylic paint, stained paint, ecoline, acrylic
18×14,5×15 cm
Bartolomeu Santos uses a wide range of media where objects and senses merge to create a personal and symbolic visual language.
The work is related to the past, but not a past exclusively his own, but a common past; whether from a family, generational or world perspective. The groups are extensive. It is the associations of ideas that form invisible groups.
In this exhibition, he uses these associations of ideas of the past in a personal trajectory.
“ It is difficult to write like this, almost in retrospect of what has not yet happened; but in a way this
is how I see my work: materialising with past, dematerialising it. Confirming the present; that boundless time. “
There is a redemption Bartolomeu tries to have in his work. Exchange and inversion are tools the artist uses to placate his unsatisfied need to create.
The materials in this exhibition also serve the artist as tools to reach the next refuge of the present. A present where he accepts to stay for a while. “Reinforcing what I have already said, it is necessary to remember, in a constant way, that these memory-forming groups are essential.”
Curated by Hugo Cantegrel
©Photodocumenta