Marcelo Moscheta – Traslados

The exhibition focuses on Marcelo Moscheta’s recent production and involves the artist’s relationship with the Portuguese territory and its ancestral layers. Always alluding to the experience of bodily displacement in direct contact with the roamed space, the proposal aims to cross notions of archaeology and architecture that determine the production of the artist’s works.

The proposal of the exhibition “Traslados” is based on the principle of human displacement that, through its most incipient contacts, changes and gives new meaning to the places crossed. According to Francesco Careri, in his book Walkscapes – walking as an aesthetic practice “By modifying the sense of the space crossed, walking becomes man’s first aesthetic act, penetrating the territories of chaos, constructing an order on which to develop the architecture of situated objects. Walking is an art from whose loins spring the menhir, sculpture, architecture, landscape. This simple action has given rise to the most important relationships man has established with the land, the territory.”

The artist develops his research interested in the wandering condition of humanity and how the connection between the territory and a body in constant movement occurs. With stone as the main testimony of the changes caused by the constant transit, the surface of the world becomes his field of action and the natural landscape his place par excellence.

Francesco Careri, Walkscapes: Walking as an Aesthetic Practice (Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2013).