the translation of things | The Nature of this Room | Galeria Lapso | Setubal, 2019
“Parting from two site-specific installations and a series of photographic experiments, the gallery turns into an immersive experience, in which the space itself - its rooms, shapes, walls, columns and windows - becomes a part of the artists' pursuits. Their pieces seem to merge with the surrounding architecture and to expand into the space contained within it. The apparent borders between works and space, graspable object and aether, blur. The gallery reveals itself as a liminal realm, a transitory, in-between state characterized by indeterminacy, the potential for destabilization and the possibility for transformation. In the exhibition "The Nature of this Room", the artists Rosanna Helena Bach (1990, Switzerland) and Nuno Moreira (1982, Portugal) challenge these assumptions of clear separation and pure rationality, tackling form and formlessness, order and chaos and the prima materia, as the primitive formless base of all matter."
Text & Curation by Sofia Steinvorth
the translation of things, 2019
Glass, thread & Metal
Site specific
The Nature of this room. Exhibition Catalogue
The materials present in this publication originate within the context of the exhibition The Nature of this Room, at Lapso Galeria (Setúbal, Portugal) in the timeframe of November 1st and December 21st, 2019, featuring the work of the artists Rosanna Helena Bach (1990, Switzerland) and Nuno Moreira (1982, Portugal).
Besides showing an important part of the artists’ aesthetic experimentations and research inquiries that developed in Lisbon throughout the months previous to the exhibition, this publication includes fragments on central topics that guided our conversations. It assembles theoretical discussions, poetic excerpts, physical and alchemical concepts as well as fictional and individual reflections on some key ideas in relation to the artists’ works. In this sense, the present publication does not only show a process, but provides entry points into an immersive environment similar to the one that materialized through the works at display at Lapso. Above all, it functions as an invitation to dive into the microcosmos of questions that led our interest.
- Sofia Steinvorth
First edition of 100
42 pages
28.5 x 30cm
Offset Printing
Open Journal
11 photographs
7 drawings
2 collages
Designed by Nuno Moreira