Notes

"The figures, in dark tones and appearing incomplete, fragmented or mutilated, emerge from the dynamic, abrasive and destructive actions performed onto the paper. While the artist guides drops and projections of metal in fusion within a formerly delimited and designed surface, the process results in burn marks, perforations, stains and rays. The directed yet unpredictable traces and scars draw the figures, giving them some sort of enigmatic and uncanny auratic presence, which seems suspended between their advent and dissipation. The representation of humans through those fortuitous scarifications conveys the idea of body pulverisation as if it was exposed to an invisible blast, rifle bullets or painful trauma, revealing the artist’s concerns with issues such as wars and violence, migration, displacements and boundaries."¹

^1. https://thisisnotawhitecube.com/artists/34-pedro-pires/, accessed 1 August 2023.