Alexandre Estrela: Knife in the Water

This is the first exhibition of Alexandre Estrela at Travesía Cuatro. The pieces in this exhibition are suggestive of the invisible, the intangible or the elusive through concrete/absent matter.

The exhibition comprises three pieces. The central piece is Faca na Água [Knife in the Water] (2017), a video sculpture in which a single stretched cable forecasts a shadow on the projection. The second piece is Vidro Duplo [Double Glass] (2018), a video projection on a glass screen with a small contact speaker glued to its surface, a transducer that uses matter as a way to translate energy and amplify sound. The third and last piece is Impossible Object (2018) a print of a hand. It appears to hint at the latin derivation of ‘rare’, which is ‘rarus’, meaning ‘full of empty spaces’.