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Mármol Project, Porto, Portugal
Solo Exhibition
23 November - 14 December, 2023
“Time doesn’t care about the minute that’s passing, but about the one that’s coming. The minute that’s coming is bold, joyous, supposedly carrying eternity—and it brings death, too, then dies like the one before it. Yet time carries on. Selfishness, you say? Yes, selfishness—I’ve got no other law. Selfishness, preservation. The jaguar kills the calf because the jaguar’s reasoning is that it must live, and if the calf’s tender, all the better: that’s the universal rule. Climb up and take a look.”
Vinicius is an artist who doesn’t set out to stir controversy with his work or flaunt his talent. Even so, it’s not easy to pin down the traces of his style—a language shattered into a thousand pieces. Pieces that blur the lines between art history and the invasion of the South American continent. Vinicius’s painting exists before Vinicius himself does. The next day, it might hark back to an earlier time within his own work. In the narrative of his art, it’s a painting that pulls us in and throws us out of focus.
The next day feels like a hazy yet lingering memory—it’s the response of a mind that’s weary but won’t forget. It might be the story of our origins and our uprooting. It’ll haunt us in our work, our habits, our languages, and the ways we connect with each other. It’ll stay alive in our memory—the memory that shaped us and keeps shaping us. The next day might just confirm that the idea of freedom won’t ever replace the memory of everything we’ve lost.
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