For the "Transe" section, Lisbon-based artist Fernão Cruz presents Liame, a set of works in which everyday objects evoke the ghosts of a body: clothing, sheets, and mobility devices meet human limbs and other protuberances. A recurring material lexicon in his work, such as clothing pieces collected from thrift stores and discarded throughout the cities he inhabits. Mixed with his own pieces, they are then crystallized into three-dimensional forms, sometimes attached to the background, sometimes emancipated in the space itself.

Cruz is more interested in the subjective layers enabled in the construction of an embodied subject, in which echoes of desire, mourning, pleasure, and repression are imprinted. Here, the object encounters the abject: stripping us of a functional and social interpretation of the former, the abject – as philosopher and analyst Julia Kristeva canonically defines it – is that which we must free ourselves from in order to become a self. It is a fantastic substance that combines qualities of estrangement and intimidation, disturbing divisions between the internal and the external, the maternal body and the paternal law, the spatial and the temporal.

It is from this enclosure that the beauty arises: the body, though contained, overflows, narrates, seduces, and haunts; like us, who move despite everything.

- excerpt written by Lucas Albuquerque, curator

Liame é o resultado da mais recente residência artística do artista em São Paulo, e estará em exposição na feira SP-Arte Rotas de 27 a 31 de Agosto 2025.