Tradution: beta.m.xreis
The exhibition Ruin’s Anatomy does not seek redemption or rescue. Gabriel Augusto dives into the bowels of MUDDA – this museum of remains, of layers that time does not erase, but settles – to transform fragments of abandonment into living work. His canvases and sculptures merge with the rubble, made from the flesh of the building itself, echoing a symbiosis between physical ruin and institutional ruin.
The cracked walls, tattooed by interventions from other times, become an extension of Gabriel's works, which scream with the same intensity as the graffiti and the wreckage. There is no smoothness or lyricism here; there is the rawness of a space that has been left behind, where the silence is interrupted only by the grunt of structures that collapse. But, far from being a lament, the exhibition is a celebration of what accumulates and perpetuates itself through neglect – monsters born from chunks of wall and cracks.
MUDDA, with its history of abandonment, becomes the stage and character of this disconcerting anatomy, where the astonishment is not in the emptiness, but in the excess. The layers of paint, dust and ancient looks merge with Gabriel's pieces, in a single afternoon, to create a visceral portrait of the ruin that surrounds and defines us. Here, nothing is restored, everything is exposed.
SERVICE
Date: 9/29/24 - Sunday
Hour: 14h at 17h
Local: MUDDA
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