No Feeling is Final is a publication arising from the eponymous exhibition by João Motta Guedes, curated by Luís Silva, held at Galeria da Boavista from April 16 to June 23, 2024. It brings together essays by Sara Antónia Matos and Pedro Faro, Luís Silva, and Ana Anacleto, extending the exhibition’s conceptual framework and engaging with the deeply personal, poetic, and narrative dimensions that permeate João Motta Guedes’s practice. The publication also features photographic reproductions of the works on display.
“Guedes’ pieces seem to touch on this flow of art, emotions, concerns and revelations, of a utopian nature, and hence also very real.”
– Sara Antónia Matos e Pedro Faro
“At times intimately connected, others in an explicit contradiction, but always emerging from a deeply personal point of view and a place of self-exposure, these concepts evoke a body of work in which the metaphor of traveling can be used to better understand life: an ongoing inner journey built upon he endless possibilities of trajectories, both individual and collective, allowing for the exploration and the sharing of experiences on what it means to be and to feel human.”
– Luís Silva
“A recourse to poetic language is eminently present in his work, serving as a way into his intimate depths. Think poetically, write poetically, see poetically, conceive poetically. A taste, further nurtured by his reading of the Romantic poets and a particular devotion to semantics, for the particularities of language and its formal nature, as a means to trigger specific emotional states (…)”
– Ana Anacleto