O EQUILÍBRIO QUE ANTECEDE O CAOS QUE ANTECEDE A CRIAÇÃO

"Rubens wanted to research sleep and elements that involve good rest, such as meditations, dreams, teas and natural incense. He told me that when thinking about sleep, he questioned the omnipresent tiredness in capitalist societies that always want us to be alert to produce more and more – from formal work to the unpaid work of consuming the flood of information from digital media. The research would design a healing gesture against collective exhaustion (...) Maybe it is possible to live in another way, less exhausting, he told me . Perhaps it is possible to balance awakening and rest, and share this balance with plants, animals, the landscape. The desire that drives art can lead us to imagine another way of life, I thought. After all, on tired days , what more can we want from art than for it to place us on top of a mountain and make us dream about the movement of clouds?" - curatorial text by Mari Fraga.