Perhaps (after all there is no message) On black wall

Perhaps (after all there is no message) is an action by Eduard Arbós within a broader work on image and language started after a serious eye problem, with the project «A shot in the eye».

With the Braille code as a conductor a proposal is built that, opening a dialogue between the visible and the invisible, between showing and hiding, questions our way of reading and interpreting images and signs. Some signs that without knowing the code, regardless of the language used, are pure abstraction, that is, mere signifiers waiting to adhere to a possible meaning.

«The deepest is the skin», Paul Valery tells us, an aphorism that seems to resonate during the execution of an action where the artist writes on the wall, with a drill, the phrase by John Cage that gives the work its title. An aggressive writing that seems to want to perforate the superficial layer of the visible, «the skin», in order to access a depth from which, now can unveil a supposed and slippery mystery. In the words of Fernando Pessoa: «Always the mystery of the deep as certain as the sleep of mystery of the surface».

Location Museu:
Praça das Cortes de Coimbra,
Santa Clara, 3040-250 Coimbra.