Condensation and displacement

The entrance of Vallois Gallery, in Paris, where Henrique Oliveira presents the show "Fissure"/Photo: Hélio Campos Mello
The entrance of Vallois Gallery, in Paris, where Henrique Oliveira presents the show “Fissure”/Photo: Hélio Campos Mello

The young Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira has remained in Paris since his participation at the Palais de Tokyo with the installation Baitogogo, created in 2013 and still on display as part of the educational program of the Museum. With the exhibition Fissure, open until November 28 at the Vallois Gallery and with works presented at Jardin des Plantes, the artist leaves his mark on Paris. Oliveira uses hoarding wood, second-hand objects, sofas, mattresses and other traces of everyday life, which are sculpted into new shapes. His installations and sculptures emerge from columns and walls and blend into the space taking the shapes of caves, lumps, arms that reach out, cavities.

Henrique Oliveira states that his goal since 2009 is to “create tension in the space.” Walls are no longer the same once Oliveira takes possession of them. The sculpture Condensação consists of eleven mattresses stacked in the upright position. The mattresses were hollowed out and the padding material was reshaped into a cloud that floats inside the cavity.

"Untitled" (Protuberâncias #2,#3 e #4), 2015, installation, mixed technique/Photo: Patricia Rousseaux
“Untitled” (Protuberâncias #2,#3 e #4), 2015, installation, mixed technique/Photo: Patricia Rousseaux

In addition to alluding to the physical phenomenon of condensation of water vapor into rain clouds, the work’s title reminds us of The Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud, which was a source of inspiration to surrealism for many years. Condensation and displacement are psychic processes of the unconscious that enable the “talking cure”, psychoanalytical method by means of which some dream elements are brought out to the conscious while others are omitted. Some of these elements combine among themselves and merge, taking shapes that are reinterpreted. Other dream elements, either by censorship or trauma mechanisms, are kept in secret or left behind.

"Condensation", 2012-2015, was first presented for in the Milan gallery of São Paulo on the occasion of the exhibit entitled liquid reality. This work results from the concerns of the artist while visiting New Orleans after the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of mattresses were displaced by the hurricane and lied on the ground as a reminder of routines destroyed with thousands of people homeless/Photo: Patricia Rousseaux
“Condensation”, 2012-2015, was first presented for in the Milan gallery of São Paulo on the occasion of the exhibit entitled liquid reality. This work results from the concerns of the artist while visiting New Orleans after the city was devastated by Hurricane Katrina. Hundreds of mattresses were displaced by the hurricane and lied on the ground as a reminder of routines destroyed with thousands of people homeless/Photo: Patricia Rousseaux


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