This could be the starting point of the exhibition ARBÓREA, by Rute Violante. As so often happens in his photographic work, there is an artistic, spiritual and philosophical quest that subtly appears in the photographs presented. Each photo is an invitation to stop, feel and simply be. Each photo goes against the voracity of the clocks to which we all submit, challenging us to feel time, instead of chasing it, instead of trying to hold it.
Between smile and restlessness, nature and humanity, urgency and contemplation, movement and pause, totality and detail, interior and exterior, timelessness and the moment, Rute’s work delves into contradictions apparent and invisible connections to offer a perspective of the world as serene and beautiful as it is introspective and questioning. Proposing an artistic creation that simultaneously communicates with emotion and reason, with the soul and the body, with the skin, ARBÓREA offers a possibility of change and formulates an invitation to movement.
Because what a ballerina and a tree have in common is movement. Ruth reminds us that movement is not just what you see or measure. Immobility hides infinite dances, only perceptible to those who know how to contemplate them; Ruth knows, and that’s what she proposes to us in this exhibition: her look at the dances of immobility.
“It remains for us to accept the invitation and dance. How the trees dance.” Paul Kellerman
Project
Arborea Project
Location
Leiria, Portugal
