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Arco Lisboa 23
Francisco Trêpa + Gabriel Ribeiro
[25/05/23 - 28/05/23]

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Booth view

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Booth view

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Polinizador I, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

31x28x35 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Polinizador I, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

31x28x35 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Polinizador II, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

33x30x35 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Polinizador II, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

33x30x35 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Polinizador III, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

60x31x20 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Polinizador III, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

60x31x20 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Sun | Sol, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

26x26x07 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Pollination Stage, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada, metal | Glazed Ceramics, metal

122x40x40 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Pollination Stage, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada, metal | Glazed Ceramics, metal

122x40x40 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Two Holes, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

52x42x24 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Two Holes, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

52x42x24 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Crawl, climb, feed and again, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

51x31x27 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Crawl, climb, feed and again, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

51x31x27 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Amphibian Cobalt, 2023

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

28x25x28 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Copper Mouth, 2023 ( série de 6 | series of 6)

Cerâmica Vidrada | Glazed Ceramics

14x14x11 cm

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Fogo Torto | Bent Fire V, 2023

Fire-printed photogram, Wood coated aluminium frame, museum glass

Fotograma impresso a fogo, Moldura de alumínio revestida a madeira, vidro de museu

67×50 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Fogo Torto | Bent Fire VI, 2023

Fire-printed photogram, Wood coated aluminium frame, museum glass

Fotograma impresso a fogo, Moldura de alumínio revestida a madeira, vidro de museu

67×50 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Fogo Torto | Bent Fire III, 2023

Fire-printed photogram, Wood coated aluminium frame, museum glass

Fotograma impresso a fogo, Moldura de alumínio revestida a madeira, vidro de museu

50×40 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Fogo Torto | Bent Fire II, 2023

Fire-printed photogram, Wood coated aluminium frame, museum glass

Fotograma impresso a fogo, Moldura de alumínio revestida a madeira, vidro de museu

50×40 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Fogo Torto | Bent Fire IV, 2023

Fire-printed photogram, Wood coated aluminium frame, museum glass

Fotograma impresso a fogo, Moldura de alumínio revestida a madeira, vidro de museu

50×40 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Fogo Torto | Bent Fire I, 2023

Fire-printed photogram, Wood coated aluminium frame, museum glass

Fotograma impresso a fogo, Moldura de alumínio revestida a madeira, vidro de museu

50×40 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Fogo Torto | Bent Fire VII, 2023

Fire-printed photogram, Wood coated aluminium frame, museum glass

Fotograma impresso a fogo, Moldura de alumínio revestida a madeira, vidro de museu

50×67 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

Foco Galeria Arco Lisboa 23

Dust Mite, 2023

Laser-cut stainless steel

Aço inoxidável cortado a laser

68×50 cm | Unique Edition | Edição Unica

For Arco Lisboa 2023, Galeria Foco is pleased to presents a duo exhibition Plants, as far as I know, are still bending towards the light by Gabriel Ribeiro and Francisco Trêpa.

Francisco Trêpa presents a series of ceramic sculptures, which builds upon a body of work started in 2022. Modeled and glazed bodies, formally undefined, appear side by side and tell us a story – without a established narrative – of possibilities and encounters. Among these creatures, the similarities are many, but none can be said to be equal to the other. Having the perception of plant growth requires a different perception of time as we know it. Recreate, replicate, sprout and open. A group of pollinators has gathered to feed on flowers, which, in turn, attract them by producing cobalt blue, copper green, honey brown pollen. Flowers have their reasons for attracting these animals, and they, in turn, cannot resist them. What do pollinators carry after feeding? What do they carry with them after they get together and go their separate ways? In any case, their transit adds something to the places they land, releasing what they unknowingly carry within themselves from the moment they feed.

This transformative or perhaps liminal tendency is also manifested in Gabriel Ribeiro’s ghostly fire-printed photograms. The images oscillate between photography and sculpture, flatness and depth, sharpness and opacity, the documental and the oniric. Upon close inspection, coiling shapes appear to be fully incandescent or conducting mysterious gases in its visible internality. The marks appear at once intentional and arbitrary, fluctuating between the random assemblages of Mikado games and the pragmatic rigor of clock hands. Rather than concealed in favour of a printed image, the materiality of the photographic paper is revealed in its full photosensitivity. It is precisely in this arena or mise-en-scene where Ribeiro manipulates his objects in pitch darkness and exposes them to the light of fire for two seconds. The resulting effect probes primitive image-making techniques or shadow-play, where images are quickly projected, before being completely dissolved in the following instant.

In a conversation that traverses matter, meaning, essence and reference, the two artists present a series of works that arise from instinct and celebrates it. as one of many pulsating forces in the universe making sure things happen.

Opening Section curated by Chus Martínez and Luiza Teixeira de Freitas.