Musa paradisiaca, an artistic project by Eduardo Guerra and Miguel Ferrão, finalists of the 2013 EDP Foundation New Artists Award, will unveil, on 18 February, at Palácio Foz, the exhibition Souls’ Commission.
This exhibition is produced and supported by EDP Foundation, and it consists of a double projection of slides synchronised with an audio track. It is 15 minutes long and will be presented at a single session, curated by Sofia Nunes and Pedro Lapa.
Focusing on the use of dialogue, the Musa paradisiaca project began in 2010 with an online audio editorial show, which is still active today, and which has since found other broadcasting formats, including live reading sessions, slide projections synchronised with audio material, real-time talks, objects and images.
Souls’ Commission is a tale with a structure consisting of different phrases played by a sound track synchronized with the projection of hand-painted slides. The testimonies captured in conversations taking place in different times and spaces form seven characters: Captain, Guide, Eater, Infiltrated, Seer, Fugitive and Vigilante.
“The projected images that accompany the tale either help to clarify each sample phrase, as in the case of the tortoise/footballer or the fish, or reinforce their ambiguity and enigma, as in the lines or dots that form semi-figures."
“The visual layout thus introduces an added element which is, in turn, deepened by the palimpsest effect generated by the medium of projection, a still life by Frans Snyders, from which a scene populated by food and animals emerges, conversing with some of the testimonies presented”, explain the curators Sofia Nunes and Pedro Lapa.
The projection will begin at 7 pm, at Palácio Foz, in Lisbon.
