Transmutations, a solo show of works by Emo de Medeiros, is an exploration of de Medeiros' recent works, designed as a journey of initiation that spans three continents (Africa, Asia and Europe), con-texturing art with transcendence, spirituality with technology, narration with History and information with transformation.
The show is structured around a series of stations, each one symbolic of archetypal heroic adventures.
Highlights include:
Invocation: An Electrofetish which, in return for a digital offering, sends a propitiatory message to visitors' smartphones, acting as an incitement to adventure.
Revelation : The walls are hung with Metal Canvas
Fabulation: a series of Surtentures, works created using the appliqué technique characteristic of classical art of the Danhomey Kingdom since the 18th century, suggest a non-linear narrative progression. Designed using a quasi-hieroglyphic language that borrows as much from the history of art as from the digital world, they conceal the keys to their interpretation within invisible NFC chips.
Premonition: Vodunauts are video sculptures, cowrie shell-covered helmets incorporating a smartphone screen that plays videos of times past and times to come.
Transmutations guides visitors though the history and experience of a philosopher's transformation.
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