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cyriaco lopes terri witek

This series was inspired by a visit to Olympia, in Greece, most specifically, by seeing there the remainders of the pediments of the ancient Temple of Zeus, conserved in its museum. Those pediments are an example of the severe style, itself a fulcrum between artistic traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe. The duo is interested in that lingering place of cultural encounter.  a place of invention and possibilities.

In this discourse of fragments, of the wholeness of what is known only in parts, which is also the language of poetry and art, a space is filled by what is left out, by what is unpredictably completed by the encounter of the work with the world.

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Photography

veil: Ganimedes L73, L74, M73, M74

This series was inspired by a visit to Olympia, in Greece, most specifically, by seeing there the remainders of the pediments of the ancient Temple of Zeus, conserved in its museum. Those pediments are an example of the severe style, itself a fulcrum between artistic traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe. The duo is interested in that lingering place of cultural encounter.  a place of invention and possibilities.

In this discourse of fragments, of the wholeness of what is known only in parts, which is also the language of poetry and art, a space is filled by what is left out, by what is unpredictably completed by the encounter of the work with the world.

In the hairtexts ‘piercings augment nearly invisible grids to suggest that even the most broken bits of a lost world may catch at something biological and wilder’.


Textile Art

centaur-bitten N83

remainders: vessels 1 N47 and vessels 2 H33

remainders: sacred spring 1 L62

veil: vessels L20, L21, M20, M21

This series was inspired by a visit to Olympia, in Greece, most specifically, by seeing there the remainders of the pediments of the ancient Temple of Zeus, conserved in its museum. Those pediments are an example of the severe style, itself a fulcrum between artistic traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe. The duo is interested in that lingering place of cultural encounter.  a place of invention and possibilities.

In this discourse of fragments, of the wholeness of what is known only in parts, which is also the language of poetry and art, a space is filled by what is left out, by what is unpredictably completed by the encounter of the artwork with the world.

The silvertexts are cultural and personal memories 'threaded as if a night sky is writing itself’.


oh radiant boy M81

This series was inspired by a visit to Olympia, in Greece, most specifically, by seeing there the remainders of the pediments of the ancient Temple of Zeus, conserved in its museum. Those pediments are an example of the severe style, itself a fulcrum between artistic traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe. The duo is interested in that lingering place of cultural encounter.  a place of invention and possibilities.

In this discourse of fragments, of the wholeness of what is known only in parts, which is also the language of poetry and art, a space is filled by what is left out, by what is unpredictably completed by the encounter of the work with the world.

In the hairtexts ‘piercings augment nearly invisible grids to suggest that even the most broken bits of a lost world may catch at something biological and wilder’. 

his excuse was beautyL41

fist to lips, the old diviner O64

in whose paintless eyes D48

somnambulists O9

once billowed backwards I30

This series was inspired by a visit to Olympia, in Greece, most specifically, by seeing there the remainders of the pediments of the ancient Temple of Zeus, conserved in its museum. Those pediments are an example of the severe style, itself a fulcrum between artistic traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe. The duo is interested in that lingering place of cultural encounter.  a place of invention and possibilities.

In this discourse of fragments, of the wholeness of what is known only in parts, which is also the language of poetry and art, a space is filled by what is left out, by what is unpredictably completed by the encounter of the artwork with the world.

The silvertexts are cultural and personal memories 'threaded as if a night sky is writing itself’.

her unrouged nipple I57

pheidias touched me here I25

no grapes no hand J72

either myth, humming E44

with revolving wings

This series was inspired by a visit to Olympia, in Greece, most specifically, by seeing there the remainders of the pediments of the ancient Temple of Zeus, conserved in its museum. Those pediments are an example of the severe style, itself a fulcrum between artistic traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe. The duo is interested in that lingering place of cultural encounter.  a place of invention and possibilities.
In this discourse of fragments, of the wholeness of what is known only in parts, which is also the language of poetry and art, a space is filled by what is left out, by what is unpredictably completed by the encounter of the work with the world.
In the hairtexts ‘piercings augment nearly invisible grids to suggest that even the most broken bits of a lost world may catch at something biological and wilder’. 

woke up the gods D57

in the stoa of echo H60

broken river gods B46

oracle I41

In the imaginary pediment, the Brazilian-US duo cyriaco lopes terri witek invites us into a poetic meditation via performance, visual poetry, embroidery, veiled imagery and video – pointing to what we choose to remember or to forget, and to the transitory and fragmentary nature of all connections we make. In their work, mythology, history and archaeology weave a delicate web that takes us back to a time when philosophy was poetry and art was life.

The different series of work that braid the exhibition together—all recently created and shown for the very first time— find a time and space of common inspiration: a visit to Olympia (Greece), and most specifically the artists seeing the remainders of the pediments of the ancient temple of Zeus, conserved in its museum. Those pediments are an example of the severe style, itself a fulcrum between artistic traditions of Africa, Asia and Europe. Interested in that lingering place of cultural encounter: a place of invention and possibilities, they compose an invocation using text collected from the ancient site of Olympia.

The pediment is also a strict geometrical space that encloses politics, history, and passions. In its triangle, people are killed, and people are conquered. Half-remembered layers of history that obscure, recompose themselves into images.

cyriaco lopes terri witek address what they call ‘the discourse of fragments’, of the wholeness of what is known only in parts. That is also the language of poetry and art, where a space is filled by what is left out, by what is unpredictably completed by the encounter of the artwork with the world.

The imaginary pediment

The imaginary pediment

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