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Art Exhibition: What the body has forgotten by Luís Santos
4:42 CAT | 19 September 2019
Art Exhibition: What the body has forgotten by Luís Santos
Date and Time: Tuesday, October 1 2019 at 18h30. Exhibition will be available until Tuesday, November 5 2019
Entrance: Free
Address: Centro Cultural Franco-Moçambicano, Av. Samora Machel no. 468, Maputo
About the exhibition
“What the body has already forgotten” is the first solo exhibition by Mozambican artist Luís Santos to be inaugurated on October 1st at the Franco-Mozambican Cultural Center.
Curated by Sara Carneiro, the exhibition presents the sculpture production line made by the artist this past year.
In a constant exploration of shapes and lines, influenced by the natural and architectural elements that surround it, Luís Santos builds complex organisms that extend, cross, multiply, close and pulsate. Impressive by the detail and technical agility that intertwines wood with straw and iron with cement, the sculptures look upon us as creatures of a fantastic and wild world. They confront us with a sense of familiarity and strangeness, and ask for our interaction and our curious gaze.
In his imagination, the artist expresses concerns about the mismatch between man and nature. It questions the socially established patterns that aggravate the gap between humanity and its origin, and evokes a sense of mystique in the contrast of organic limbs with the rigid planes of sculptures, “What the body has already forgotten” reminds us of the urgency to get out of cement societies and connect with what is most elementary to us.
Text by: Sara Carneiro
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