Life is a web of encounters. At every moment, these encounters transform us and are transformed by us, in an infinite network of causes and effects. But what happens when an encounter is so intense that it causes radical changes in our lives? How do we guide ourselves in the face of these changes? How rational are our decisions? And how much do intuition and creativity help us find our way towards that ever elusive stability?
Wrong Story raises these questions as it tells the story of a woman who is determined to find the man who ran over her husband and fled without rendering aid. Amid coincidences and fragments of reality that seem to fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, the protagonist of História Errada discovers much more than she imagined when she embarks on this quest. Her journey shows how encounters can challenge our certainties and lead us to explore new ways of being and acting. After all, it is in movement that, right or wrong, we seek to expand us towards happiness.
WRONG STORY
BIG CLASH
The series of paintings "História Errada" is based on a fictional narrative about a woman who, driven either by intuition or reason, seeks to uncover the person responsible for an incident that has radically altered her life. However, certainties are often fragile and built upon a precarious and incomplete understanding of reality. Neither intuition nor reason can spare her from deception.
The exhibition portrays the characters with an intimate focus, highlighting their thoughts, reflections, and states of mind. From the story to the painting, the fragmentation of the narrative underscores the idea that the dialogue between languages offers a rich field for experimentation in the visual arts. It further emphasises, in line with the theme of the exhibition, that our access to reality is fragmented, much like the characters in "Wrong Story." What occurs between scenes in the expository graphic story is left to the imagination of the observer. The bold colours in the paintings reinforce the notion that the aspects of reality we choose to focus on—what we wish to see—are also the most vibrant.
