"Bodies that come and go. Anonymous shapes calling for other liturgies. Silent and placidly alive. Identical meanings. Almost the same scenes. Knowing that the discursive enunciation of modern societies has abandoned the obscurity of sex, devoting itself to talking about it in order to better circumscribe it to the space of the sacred, the artistic programme that is manifested in the works of João Gabriel does not attribute any importance to the sexual act. The images offer us the intense dynamic relationship that is established by the temporality of before and after — the possibility of subtracting bodies from the stereotype of the centre renders the semiotic apparatus unviable. Convoking a visual intermezzo that produces the substance in which desire is activated, probable bodies await the multiplication of new pleasures."

EDUARDA NEVES
Excerpt of the exhibition text