Itu, Brasil
06/07/2024 - 29/09/2024

The DAN Acredita Project opens the exhibition Veredas by the artist Senk in Sala São Pedro

Senk is the newest artist in the DAN Acredita Project. The new exhibition within the DAN Acredita project will be by the artist Senk. The purpose of this project is to give visibility to the professional artistic production of artists who are not represented by other galleries, but with a curriculum in constant development and who are dedicated exclusively to the visual arts. For a period of 18 months, DAN Galeria undertakes to present and accompany the artist’s work, to hold a group or individual exhibition at the DAN Galeria Sala São Pedro unit, in addition to institutionally accompanying the

artist.

Curated by Carol Splendore, the exhibition is entitled “Veredas”. Presenting a group of about 20 works including paintings, installations and 3 sculptures, the exhibition opens on July 6 at 11 in the morning

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SERTÃO DE DENTRO

“the flow of life encompasses everything, life is like this:

It heats up and cools down, squeezes and then loosens, calms down and then becomes restless.

What she wants from us is courage.”

João Guimarães Rosa

Senk invites us here to his sidewalks: humid and elongated areas of the Brazilian hinterland that, like his characters, are full of life. The land is fertile, yet arid

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His characters, rounded, carry time with them: whether in the necklaces and reliquaries, the picture frames, the almost empty cachaça bottles; time as a vestige of memory and also as a harbinger. It is life that there is here; it that floods and makes the buritis grow

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In glances that moisten the earth, they are sometimes oblique, sometimes closed to the outside, but they always seem to be open to the inside. They are, for the most part, glances interspersed with windows – these, with lattices composed of thin wooden grilles that form cracks, not allowing those outside to see who is inside. As if your characters could see without being seen, even if exposed here

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When we reach the window, that big eye in the center of the room, we can open it, open it — the soul window — and feel the hinterland from the inside and then see who saw us. We, being observed by them, are imposing figures, gold, copper, silver, simple and impeccable

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Sole of the feet with maps of the earth, wood stove, rocking chair, smell of clay, cornmeal, lemon balm, brewed coffee. Love. Grandma and grandpa present here, guarding the installation, the house itself, “sing for faith”. Everything descends from there, in the most labyrinthine genealogical veins, at the same time that everything is its own,

self-portrayed.

The hinterland is within us, said Rosa, who also said that the hinterland is the size of the world.

There’s this and that. It has land and it has a soul.

Thank you, Senk, for your powerful, backcountry art.

Carolina Splendore, curator.