06 Aug 19 Sep
Wednesday to Sunday 14:00 to 17:00
exposure
body and time
Antonio Mira
In the cycle of existence everything changes. Nothing we think is real is permanent.
Even the hardest granite will be reduced to dust. This is the natural cycle of matter and the same happens with the human being in relation to its densest part.
For some from dust to dust, to others from light to light.
However, all of us, without exception, are looking for the meaning of our permanence in this world full of mysteries, passions and miseries.
With the limited level of perception given by our senses, we have access to some “realities”, but we also tend to refuse hypotheses that cannot be verified by them.
Our notion of reality is thus distorted, because it is based only on the responses given by the complex chemistry of our body.
Yet the perceptions of our consciousness cannot be apprehended by methods similar to those that examine external phenomena.
For this reason, the various Traditions point the direct way to broadening the knowledge of the Self, overcoming the illusions that surround us.
The various forms of mysticism have the ultimate aim of awakening to the total reality, going beyond temporal cycles.
António Mira (In “O Dilema dos Sete Círculos”)
IN TRANSIT
The reiteration of the themes of his work is intertwined with his life path, which he proposes to share with us, as if in conversation. He is a wanderer through particularly intense places whose marks he absorbs, or he marks and marks himself. As you can quickly see as I said on another occasion), we are talking about religion here, in the first sense, neither institutionalized nor distinct from the term. Religare: man to the world, the world to the cosmos, representing our life as a circle of the fruitful cycle of life. The figure of this constitutive integration is, for Mira, the mandala of the philosophical religions of the East but perceptible in many (perhaps all) iconographies of the sacred: the perfect and silent circles one within the other, making the minimum and immensity equivalent in a movement so repeated. that we don't sense it. As we don't feel our planet sliding in its orbit and we with it.
(...) He then uses subtle and technically refined means to mark this invisible path that both opens an ethic of life and one more link of the will to art that, in the founding sense of the German philosopher Alois Riegl, implies, in each situation, the body and soul of each artist.
Raquel Henriques da Silva
