You've got to dig to dig it, you dig?
Miami, Florida
“Dark like an armpit, bloody like a heart”
Joyce Mansour. Translated by Emilie Moorhouse
“… dampen with the sumptuous scents
of time, of brevities . . . and I have sung of
festive tendencies turned upside down.
But can’t you do something about death,
Lord, about limits, about all that ends?
César Vallejo. Translated from the Spanish by Yvette Siegert.
A Gentil Carioca is pleased to announce Topografia da Memória, an installation by Sallisa Rosa commissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary, curated by Denis Pernet and Thiago de Paula Souza. The work explores the theme of memory and is made up of more than 100 ceramic pieces handmade from collected clay, arranged in such a way as to create an environment for visitors to explore.
Topography of Memory will be on display until December 17, 2023 at the Collins Park Rotunda. In 2024, the work will be presented in Brazil, where it will be exhibited at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo between March 16 and July 28.
Topography of Memory.
Tunnel Projects, a small project room in a basement parking lot in Little Havana, Miami.
El que flores mastica
y flores traga
y por tanto flores come
de varios tipos
y a todas horas
no lo hace pensando
en estar más cerca
de la naturaleza
lo hace pensando
en el vacío interior
el que piensa en el vacío
no lo hace pensando
lo hace sin querer.
Legna Iglesias Rodríguez – “Arrancaba las flores y se las comía / Tearing Out and Eating Flowers” via Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation and O, Miami.
… a thing
That suddenly, for blank astonishment,
Charms every sense, and makes all thought take wing,—
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Matilda Gathering Flowers
“… in times like these
to have you listen at all, it’s necessary
to talk about trees.”
Adrienne Rich, What Kind of Times are These
Poetic gestures in a 2003? video.
