PEDRA PENDURADA
Pedra Pendurada [ Portuguese] Hanging Stone [English]
Concrete poetry video.
Slate tiles 20 x 15 (approx) cm, oil paint.
Language: Portuguese.
A work inspired by the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) poetry collective, in which the linguistic restrictions are only using words formed from the letters that comprise 'pendurada' (hanging/hung). Through exhausting the possibilities of this limited choice of words, the original poem, written in a traditionally linear sequence, shifts and morphs through the use of video editing. Rather than the poem reading as one clean movement, the words that hover on screen blend with neighbouring words, often forming new, chance combinations as the wind turns certain tiles unexpectedly.
Pedra Pendurada [ Portuguese] Hanging Stone [English]
Concrete poetry video.
Slate tiles 20 x 15 (approx) cm, oil paint.
Language: Portuguese.
A work inspired by the Oulipo (Ouvroir de littérature potentielle) poetry collective, in which the linguistic restrictions are only using words formed from the letters that comprise 'pendurada' (hanging/hung). Through exhausting the possibilities of this limited choice of words, the original poem, written in a traditionally linear sequence, shifts and morphs through the use of video editing. Rather than the poem reading as one clean movement, the words that hover on screen blend with neighbouring words, often forming new, chance combinations as the wind turns certain tiles unexpectedly.
