This is not a simple arts exhibition. For itsindividual in the Oscar Niemeyer museum, SoniaDias, prepared an unique environment, a spaceprojected to touch, even the indifferent or theoblivious, in an essential point: we and the worldare only a single thing. From that came thetenuous lighting, the low and deep sounds andthe exhalation of the discrete heavy “juta” soakedin 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, itwould divert the perception of the rich andunstoppable exchange that we established withthe temperature of the environment, like the airthat wraps our bodies, the perfume we smell, thenoise issued by a sound frequency that we feel inour guts, making it into a sounding board.
Sonia rescues the lesson of our bounds with theworld, with things that fill us, evoking a notionthat 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 thatfeeds it and makes it produce its on sap. There isin the place: installations, videos, sculptures, photographs and besides that there are the othervisitors that, like you, are integrated in that space,connected amongst each other and somehowentangled with you. The flows between the thingsare subtle, but constant. Approximations arepredicted by the gravitational force of the things,a sinuous and calm ride going around the objects. Each piece/body, being it an enigmaticphotograph dyed in an intense red, or amalleable surface made with 3000 dried lotusseeds suspended in the air, or the image of around hole dug in a ravine, that would be fixed iffrom it was not coming a smoky breath, or evenyour body contributing to the break of silencewith the sound of your steps, it is a display thatbelongs to a bigger thing.
A careful reader of the aspects of life consideredby quantum mechanics and the importance ofbreathing, a person that lives with the plants as apossibility of inner comprehension, thepolymorphic poetry of Sonia Dias drifts from thecertainty, like herself explains, that the universe, inany dimension, from the macrocosmos to thesubatomic particle plane, it’s an energeticcomposite. What we call the subatomic particleplane is a mix of interdependent processes,whose particularities converge to a harmonicwhole. Our planet is a living system inside of aneven bigger one, such as when we were only afetus and communicated with our mothers by theumbilical cord.
Agnaldo Farias
Curator
