1. What aspects does this artwork integrate (formally, plastically, or conceptually)?

Reference to an image by Mario Ramiro, and the record of absences.

2. Where is it embedded? (what was the genesis of the making? - the milieu, the context).

This piece is named after an exhibition held in December 2013 at the gallery “the room” in São Paulo.

3. What Question or Action does it pose?

The performative gesture of transforming a domestic space into an exhibition space and the documentation of this installation, which lasted only a few hours of the day. — At the end of the day, you come by me, with your edges softly blurred, and without saying anything, you release your weight onto my chest.

Filipe dos Santos Barrocas (Portugal, 1982) is a multidisciplinary artist, researcher and teacher based in São Paulo since 2010. His work combines visual and performing arts, with a focus on photography. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), researching Brazilian art and anthropology in dialogue with the Portuguese colonial past. With a Master's degree in Visual Poetics from the same institution, he published the award-winning thesis "The Neutral Body" (2015). In 2020, he won the ProAC Expresso Aldir Blanc and presented the film "Labirinto" at the Tiradentes Film Festival. He has exhibited at Espaço das Artes (São Paulo), NowHere (Lisbon), Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo), and participated in festivals such as Fotografia de Tiradentes and Rotterdam Photo.