Rui Chafes makes anthropomorphic forms, half familiar, half confusing, in contoured heavy steel, simultaneously gentle and menacing, an ominousness that lingers on the edge of manifesting.
“Art depends on truth, but truth, being indivisable, cannot know itself: to tell the truth is to lie. Thus the [artist] is the truth, and yet when he speakes he lies.” ― Franz Kafka
So the lobster is not a lobster, because eyes remain trapped between half awake and half asleep. Kafka lives in the mind and comes out through the hands, disorienting, surreal and nightmare-ish. What has happened, you might think. It is no dream.
All we do is see.
So come see Rui.
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| Rui Chafes |
Coming to CARBON 12 DUBAI this January
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