Uniqueness of Time | 2010 Photographs of tribal African masks are reproduced in large scale and are adorned with jewels that evoke the idea of African tribal jewellery. Instead of precious metals or stones, mobile phone components are used to make the jewellery. Screens, chips, keypads, motherboards and cables are transformed into sculptured materials that form a structure of technological preciousness. Despite what can be said about the aesthetics of the technological, the crucial aspect here, more than the ornamental and plastic characteristics of those parts, is the symbiosis between the body and technology, and in particular the concept of bionic body. After seeing these works we are taken to reflect upon an ancient state and a futurological prediction. The intention is not to criticise or joke around the “primitive” or even to question it. But, to express the human desire, present since the beginning of time, to take its capabilities further than what the organic body permits by bringing together these two once distant Universes. In this sense, these masks are simultaneously fiction and portraits of creatures that are integrated in a present social context, in a past and in a tradition. Filipa Oliveira Curator
Por: Daniela Ribeiro
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