a new synthesis
título do projecto apresentado na 3ª edição da Bienal do Porto Santo, que parte do texto do autor indiano C. Mohan Jain.
reflecte sobre a ideia de integração dos diferentes aspectos da psique, sob um paradigma que abandona a divisão interna,
propondo a conciliação dos opostos e transcendência da dualidade.
O projecto é composto por um vídeo performático que representa uma meditação activa, um conjunto de fotografias, que exploram
os diferentes aspectos/energias do 'self'. A partir destas imagens, os múltiplos auto retratos são reproduzidos em viníl transparente
e aplicados, sobre uma base pictórica.


exhibition view, Centro Cultural do Porto Santo, 2009


Man has lived divided in two. Either be the body or be the soul.
We have been taught we cannot be both.
We have been told to deny many parts of our natural being.
Man is an organic whole, nothing has to be denied.
Living life in totality brings transcendence.
Then the polarities disappear into each other and the polar opposites
become complementary.
Then the meeting of the body and the soul is tremendously beautiful.
Only in this meeting man became unsplit, integrated, whole.
A new synthesis.
The meeting of the earth and the sky, the material and the spiritual,
the visible and the invisible, the man and the woman, the day and the night,
in and out, lower and higher, good and evil, sex and samadhi.
The new man will live through awareness.
The new man will be responsible - responsible to himself and to existence.
The new man will not be moral in the old sense; he will be amoral.
The new man is open and honest. He is transparently real, authentic and self-disclosing.
He will not be a hypocrite. He will not live through goals.
He will know only one time, now, and only one space, here.
And through that presence he will know what God is.

The new man is coming, the old is going.
Rejoice!

in Philosophia Perennis, C. Mohan Jain


a new synthesis#01, 2009 | mixed media | 135 x 212 cm


a new synthesis#04, 2009 | mixed media | 135 x 212 cm

new synthesis, 2009 | 4' 59''