"Sanatorium user the Sign of the Hourglass" by Joanna Latka and "Out loud" by Margarida Alfacinha

by Joanna Latka | Margarida Alfacinha

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Joanna Latka (b. Kraków, 1978), is inspired, in this new series of drawings, by the stories from one of the most famous books by Polish writer Bruno Schulz (Drohobych, 1892 –1942), Sanatorium Under the Sign of Hourglass. Stories located in an undefined place and time, in a surreal intersection of past and present, on the border between the real and the dream, which dialogue in an unique way with the power and expressive energy of Joanna Latka's imagination, , in an artistic complicity of two adventurers who venture into territories where what Schulz called “the dying, closed beauty of our museums” does not fit.


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Margarida Alfacinha (b. Lisbon, 1975) launches, in "Out loud", a scream to break the silence that covers the lives of women, in this case the life path of a woman artist. This work is the path of a voice that was silence, silent in time, traced in space, printed on canvas and paper. It is the voice that rebels against the silenced word. The drawn word, the line, the tear and the cry are mixed, confused, merged.
It is the woman who says, who speaks, who suffers, who is silent. It is the woman who fights and contributes. It is the path of time that is past, made present, that finally expresses itself and speaks, that is never silent again.
Margarida Alfacinha traced a route made up of bending, curving and stumbling. Path of truth, of revolt, of the struggle to be a woman, mother and artist.
This voice is the place of freedom to be, to feel and exist, woman.»