Reconciliação
Event
BY juxtaposing several world “tableaux”, Alexandre Dal Farra and Patrícia Portela create a landscape of memories and images of the last two decades in Brazil and Portugal. Coronel Brilhante Ustra, a Portuguese female emigrant, East Timor fighting for its independence through its leader Xanana Gusmão, and comet Halley passing by unnoticed, are some of those landscapes that, when interacting, create a thin thread of implicitly political tension. Such thin thread includes the gesture of reconciliation. With the past, with what has not happened to us (yet), with the world now, with us. Such thin thread includes the promise of a Europe that both share and that none inhabits or envisions, as a moral proposition, civic concept, philosophical idea. In a world that is heading towards the reopening of wounds and to irreconcilable extremes, one must recall that war is a real option, but so is reconciliation.
