Emília Ferreira, “how wan-fo was saved”

It is now commonplace to state that the matter with which artists work comes from that which has already been worked on by their peers. The genetic lines that are thus set out and rooted create the imaginary and grammar of each artist. To gaze on the gaze of another, to see the real world through the filter of imagination, of the hand, of another person is artists’ favourite exercise. Not because each artist is incapable of seeing things anew. But because, just as words have a history, images also bear worlds and traditions, manners of seeing. And because in the approach to and the learning that each of us makes about what surrounds us, the filter… (read the full article)