There is a theory that the artificial intelligence used by the Google Translate algorithms initially assumed English as the zero-point in the translation of the two languages. But after a while it would create its own language, completely unknown to humans, and replace English at that zero-point. The machine had created a proto-language, a bridge-language, capable of harmonizing and annulling human linguistic barriers.

Ponto-Zero, de Igor Jesus, has its starting point in the search for a common language in two different plastic languages: the photographic work of Daniela Ângelo and the engraving work of Rita Ferreira. Works that are appropriated and submitted to a set of systems that, while preserving what are the idiosyncratic qualities of each, act as a filter that blurs the linguistic boundaries that distance them, to find a point of fusion. With the use of prisms, kaleidoscopic lenses, and the subversion of laboratory protocols, the light from the photographs is geometrized and decomposed into new photographs that suggest game boards made of exotic woods, but that are, in fact, matrices of a score capable of producing a blackout in the exhibition.

The exhibition is organized by Curtas Metragens CRL, as part of the programming of Solar – Cinematic Art Galley, with the support of Vila do Conde Municipality and the Direção-Geral das Artes.

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Point-Zero, by Igor Jesus

Solar, Cinematic Art Gallery 

10.12.2022 - 28.01.2023

Monday to Saturday, 14:00-18:30

Vila do Conde

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Igor Jesus (Lisbon, 1989) has a BA degree in Sculpture from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon. His work has received the Caixa Award for Young Artists (2022) and the Crear/sin/prisa, Cervezas Alhambra /ARCO (2019), and he was a finalist in the EDP New Artists (2017). He was a scholarship of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in partnership with Kunstlerhaus Bethanien (2017). He exhibits his work regularly, namley: Banho Maria (Escola das Artes Porto, 2022); Clávier à Lumier (Rialto6, 2021); Chamber (Capela Carlos Alberto, 2020); Safelight (Gal. Filomena Soares, 2019); Strob (No Entulho/Artworks, 2019); Bound to the Earth (Kunstraum Botschaft, 2018); Anthropophagy (Cologne Art Fair, 2018); Love you to the bones (Gal. Filomena Soares, 2017); Liebe bis unter die haut (Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2017) and Chessari (Solar Gallery, 2016), also participating in several group exhibitions. His works are part of several collections, such as António Cachola, Fernanda Ribeiro, Fundação EDP, Norlinda e José Lima, Teixeira de Freitas e Associados, among other public and private collections, in Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Netherlands and Brazil.