A Remote Whisper by Pedro Cabrita Reis.

Pedro Cabrita Reis’ has prepared an all-over intervention as his contribution to the Collateral Events of the 55th Venice Art Biennale with the title “A remote whisper” which encompasses all rooms of the 700 sqm exhibition area on the “piano nobile” of Palazzo Falier.

“A remote whisper” flows through the rooms, embracing the walls, doorways and floors with aluminium tubes, florescent lights and cables which are drawings in space. It is a semi-precarious, hand-made, almost architectural construction which integrates fragments coming from his studio like parts of earlier works abandoned by him, documentary material, photos as well as drawings and paintings next to flotsam and jetsam found in the city.

The artist tends not to establish particular distinctions between exhibiting and working spaces and this is also the case of this project in Venice. A significant number of his works have been or, are being done, “in situ”. Thus, they embody in the actual process of making art, a lingering presence of several paths crossing, like reminiscences and seemingly banal, vernacular experiences; an aleatoric conception of hazard or of intellectual ‘rigueur’ and visual or literary randomness, suggesting that each work proposes to us an ongoing ‘inventory’ of the world and simultaneously a model for its perception. This rather personal and intricate method of ‘construction’, a characteristic of Cabrita’s artistic language is the prevailing approach for his exhibition at Palazzo Falier, a conversation with a space to live in.

Sabrina van der Ley

Venue.- Palazzo Falier, No. 2906 Caller Falier, Venice, Italy.
Dates.- 30 May – 24 November, 2013.
Schedule to the public.- Tuesday to Sunday 10:00 to 18:00 h (free access).

Coinciding with the exhibition, Ivorypress has published an extensive catalog entitled a remote whisper that runs through the work produced by Pedro Cabrita Reis since 2010. The publication also includes an appendix devoted to the project made ​​for this edition of the Venice Biennale.