This is not a simple arts exhibition. For its individual in the Oscar Niemeyer museum, Sonia Dias, prepared an unique environment, a space projected to touch, even the indifferent or the oblivious, in an essential point: we and the world are only a single thing. From that came the tenuous lighting, the low and deep sounds and the exhalation of the discrete heavy “juta” soaked in dirt hanging on the walls. Once inside the space, you, as like the art pieces displayed all along it, will be part of a whole thing. To display eachpiece as part of a single body, as a singularity, would cover a connection amongst the pieces, it would divert the perception of the rich and unstoppable exchange that we established with the temperature of the environment, like the air that wraps our bodies, the perfume we smell, the noise issued by a sound frequency that we feel in our guts, making it into a sounding board.
Sonia rescues the lesson of our bounds with the world, with things that fill us, evoking a notion that comes from the roots, the matrix of the word Radical, source and nutrition of life, all life forms, those that roots on the dirt seeking the sap that feeds it and makes it produce its on sap. There is in the place: installations, videos, sculptures, photographs and besides that there are the other visitors that, like you, are integrated in that space, connected amongst each other and somehow entangled with you. The flows between the things are subtle, but constant. Approximations are predicted by the gravitational force of the things, a sinuous and calm ride going around the objects. Each piece/body, being it an enigmatic photograph dyed in an intense red, or a malleable surface made with 3000 dried lotus seeds suspended in the air, or the image of a round hole dug in a ravine, that would be fixed if from it was not coming a smoky breath, or even your body contributing to the break of silence with the sound of your steps, it is a display that belongs to a bigger thing.
A careful reader of the aspects of life considered by quantum mechanics and the importance of breathing, a person that lives with the plants as a possibility of inner comprehension, the polymorphic poetry of Sonia Dias drifts from the certainty, like herself explains, that the universe, in any dimension, from the macrocosmos to the subatomic particle plane, it’s an energetic composite. What we call the subatomic particle plane is a mix of interdependent processes, whose particularities converge to a harmonic whole. Our planet is a living system inside of an even bigger one, such as when we were only a fetus and communicated with our mothers by the umbilical cord.
Agnaldo Farias
Curator
