Pedro Barateiro

Poems for Tourists presents a set of new works by Pedro Barateiro using sculpture, drawing, sound and performance.

About the exhibition, the artist wrote the following: Poems for Tourists is an exhibition I made for a city in transformation and for the people who are transformed in it. It is a very personal exhibition. I felt like showing drawings again, despite feeling too exposed, because drawings are like letters or messages to the world, the environment, nature and the beings that inhabit it. I returned to a theme that has always existed in my work: the landscape, the horizon, oppression in representation, the attempt to escape and the search for personal and collective freedom, the limits of language, the political. It seemed necessary to me to reveal some things, to be direct and to be able to speak without writing or making a long manifesto. In drawings this happens in a natural way. The act of drawing requires being present, without distancing, or just the distance between me and the paper. And there it is all inscribed. We live in a time of discourses that are very centered on form, and I am interested in questioning what is behind this excess of representation, the emptying it can produce .(…)

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