Catalog of the exhibition Through Wet Air by Catarina Dias, held at Pavilhão Branco between July 17 and October 13, 2024. The publication gathers records of the installation views and works exhibited, as well as newly commissioned essays by Eva Mendes, Sara Antónia Matos, and Pedro Faro, that deepen the formal, symbolic and phenomenological questions explored by the artist.
“Catarina Dias’ works are the result of recording and imprinting a phenomenon, or the representation of its effect, on any surface—they are the expression of a primordial physical relationship. The image shows itself through a constant play of moving towards and away from something, in a tension between what is seen, what appears, and what is no longer there in the next moment”
– Sara Antónia Matos & Pedro Faro
“Like the echoes of a flame, the works of Catarina Dias are drawings of a nameless rigour; objects enveloped in plastic and poetic affinities, whose spectral velatura and veiled temperatures softly tear apart the walls and ceilings of their intimate sensorial acuity.”
– Eva Mendes