Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes and Paulo Nozolino will exhibit together from June at the Pompidou Center in Paris, but there will also be other parallel events around these artists, such as a book by the philosopher Jacques Rancière.
“The rest is shadow”, which premieres on June 7, is a collective exhibition that brings together works by these three Portuguese artistswith screenings of films by Pedro Costa, photographs by Paulo Nozolino and sculptures by Rui Chafes.
Pedro Costa explained to the Lusa agency that “The rest is shadow” is a new creative collaboration between the three authors, after the director exhibited in 2018 at the Serralves Museum, in Porto, contrasting his work with that of guest artists. In addition to Chafes and Nozolino, the exhibition featured works by authors such as Jorge Queiroz, Robert Bresson, António Reis and Chantal Akerman.
Shortly after this exhibition in Porto, Pedro Costa had carte blanche to be at the Center Pompidou, “Hitchhiking” of the 20th anniversary of the premiere of the film “O Quarto da Vanda” (2000).
I didn’t feel like doing anything myself. I called Paulo and Rui and suggested they come do this with me. This grew, it was soon accepted by the people of Pompidou. I wanted this to be a threesome,” he stressed.
The exhibition “O rest é Sombra” should have already been inaugurated, but the covid-19 pandemic changed the calendar and only this year did it materialize, now joining the Portugal-France Crossing Season.
This waiting time between the invitation and the opening allowed them to reflect on what they each wanted to see exhibited at the Pompidou, curated by Philippe-Alain Michaud and Jonathan Puthier, with a “very elaborate, labyrinthine” scenography to explore the work of the three artists.
Qualified by the Pompidou Center as an “immersive presentation”, the exhibition presents the works “As filhos do Fogo” (2019) and “Minino Macho, Minino Fêmea” (2005), by Pedro Costa, the series of sculptures “As Tuas Mãos ” (1985-2015), by Rui Chafes, and “Untitled, 2008-2010-2002”, by Paulo Nozolino.
Paulo and I work with images and there are things that are immediately obvious; a more tangible reality, a reality that is in Paulo’s photographs and in my films, which is realistic, in the sense that we photograph what we see, which is real, of what surrounds us. There is the idea that photography and cinema are two arts that are always at risk, that despite everything have a very fragile antiquity. They are old and recent and are a bit lost in this era of images, of virtuality. Rui is a little apart from this, he is a sculpture”, and a dialogue is also proposed, Pedro Costa told Lusa.
Whoever visits the Pompidou, one of the most visited cultural spaces in the French capital, will see an anchor title in this exhibition, taken from a poem by Fernando Pessoa.
“It was through the shadow word, which is something that goes through all of us. In my case I would even say that the word rest is important. What you see in my films is a lot of remains of things, remains of houses, of things, almost garbage, remains of people, effectively,” he said.
“The rest is shadow”, by Pedro Costa (1959), Rui Chafes (1966) and Paulo Nozolino (1955), will be exhibited at the gallery 4 of the Center Pompidou from June 7 to August 22.
This exhibition will be surrounded by a series of other cultural events on the three Portuguese artists.
Paulo Nozolino, who has lived in Paris for more than a decade, where he exhibits regularly – specifically in 2002 in an anthological exhibition -, will have a solo show at the L’Entrepôt gallery.
Rui Chafes will see the work “Diários” published in France, which brings together thirty years of drawings, made in various countries, papers and materials —in which the bright colors stand out, in contrast to the black sculptures—, with the stamp of the publisher Pierre von Kleist.
Pedro Costa will have a retrospective, from June 14 to 26, at the Jeu de Paume cultural space and will make the French premiere, on June 15, of the film “Cavalo Dinheiro”, which in 2014 earned him the award for best director in the Locarno festival.
The publication of two books of essays on cinema by the Portuguese director is also planned: “Le chambres du cinéaste”, with five texts by French philosopher Jacques Rancière, and “Pedro Costa – Cinéaste de la lisière”, by French researcher Antony Fiant.
Source: Observadora
