Mozambique: ENI Open Day
Press play by Taíla Carrilho
10:59 CAT | 17 November 2017
Press play by Taíla Carrilho
The rules of this game mirror those that make up the game of our existence: transience and circularity. The dissolution of the forms that escape from the contours that define them reflect what we know and want to forget: that we inhabit the ephemeral and look in the apparent solidity of the one that surrounds us the illusion of a materiality that conceals death.
We therefore seek in the materiality of things the appeasement of the unspeakable pain that the recognition of the transitoriness that is constitutive implies and we try, through the continuous exercise of forgetfulness, to enable strategies of self-preservation. Either we stubbornly and laboriously construct powerful narratives that protect us from the announced dissipation and the "sound and fury" of a universe whose ultimate meaning escapes us.
But in the play staged here, the dematerialization of forms is subverted by an unceasing resumption. A return that is not a condemnation to blind repetition but poses the hypothesis of a feedback in which the return to corporality is impregnated by the subtle and transfiguring energy of immateriality which, if lived and assumed as such, and not as haunting, acts on the world and displaces the perception we have of it since the visible and invisible are only variables that depend on our gaze and the unconditional acceptance of life as flow. Transience is proposed here, therefore, as an opportunity and circularity understood as a challenge to freedom.
Therefore, "Press Play", and play.
Taíla Carrilho was born in Maputo in 1984. She holds a degree in Graphic Design from Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Cape Town. Coming from a family of "artists", she soon developed, naturally, the taste for drawing, painting and singing. Later came the passion for writing poetry and, recently, for declaiming.
Since November 2013 she has been a co-founder of the RUUM, a creative gallery of hand-made design objects using local materials. The design of these objects arises from the need to create "artistic" pieces, in their image, and with their DNA. The pieces, the objects and the interventions in which it is combined combine playful, utilitarian and innovative characteristics.
Date and Time: Saturday, November 18 2017 at 18h00 (inauguration), Sunday, November 19 to Friday, November 24 2017
Address: FFLC- Fundação Fernando Leite Couto, Av. Kim Il Sung no. 961, Maputo
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