Exhibition
Door
The space and time between me and you
Door opened. Door closed. I knock another door that opens itself.
During our life we spend a lot of time opening, closing or going throughout doors.
In ancient Greece the door of the dead conducted by Cerberus was a symbol of darkness and the opposite to the door of the light, the door to happiness.
A new door is opened with every birth.
Year: 2007
Venue: TAP SEAC Macau – Travelling space for exhibitions, performances and workshops
Context: Great Wall of Books – Project organised by the Great Wall of Books/Welltheatre and the Macau Cultural Institute
Year: 2007
Venue: TAP SEAC Macau – Travelling space for exhibitions, performances and workshops
Context: Great Wall of Books – Project organised by the Great Wall of Books/Welltheatre and the Macau Cultural Institute
Door opened. Door closed. I knock another door that opens itself.
During our life we spend a lot of time opening, closing or going throughout doors.
In ancient Greece the door of the dead conducted by Cerberus was a symbol of darkness and the opposite to the door of the light, the door to happiness.
A new door is opened with every birth.
There’re always two doors, the inside door and the outside door, protecting or separating people.
According to Hi-tse, the Earth is the closed door and the Sky the open door. The opening or closing door means the rhythm of the universe.
You can see that the door is not only a hole in the wall or a lot of pieces of wood that can turn on itself. A door is always present or absent, appeal or defense, innocence or sin.
For the Alchemist or the Philosopher, the door means the same thing as a key, opening to the creation.
I took the meaning of the door, and I worked through it. I have created many doors that sometimes will not exactly go to what you expected.
My doors go to the sky, to the hidden and some-times are so closed that you hardly see what’s behind them.
Macau in Chinese Ou Mun means Open Door. Open door, which is the symbol of communication and the step from us to the other. Old-fashioned doors and borders are everywhere around Macau. Doors from the old days and borders that are everywhere surrounds Macau.
Everyday hundreds of thousands of people come and go through the open from a closed Macau.
Between the moving sands, the base of the city, the space between two states or two worlds, between the known and the unknown, the door opens to reveal its real nature.
Let us open the doors.
Door in the Media
