Welcome, and know that you have already become a part of this exhibition. While reading these words, your feet are drawing. You are performing. You are being seen. You are making art. 

So, pause for a moment. Go slowly. Be aware of your hand holding this paper and open your senses to the possibilities of graphite, paper, cement, and your body. Listen, see, and feel traces of the artist while understanding that you are bound by physicality, force, and gravity. From now you are a part of Diogo Pimentão’s artworks. Participation itself is a creative act, and you are realized. 

Sol Lewitt once said, “Obviously a drawing of a person is not a real person, but a drawing of a line is a real line.” Yet here, the distinctions between line, gesture, and person are not so clear. And it is here, in the very space between inherency and representation, where Diogo Pimentão’s art practice arises: a cosmic navigator with an unconventional captain’s log from our post-internet age of discovery. 

Now, the very distinctions between his body and your body, the materials at hand (and your feet), and the forces of transformation are blurred and born. From here, we begin. 

Will Kerr 

March, 2019