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(Dis) meeting , 2014 wood Sculpture Variable dimensions

Installation The Tree Metamorphosis I, 2016 Wood, mirrors, black pen drawings and reflection Variable dimensions These works are the result of an Artistic Residency held in Alvito, Alentejo. An installation and a video created from records made in a region with centenary olive trees. These contorted and silent trees are witness to the passage of time and the changes that it operates in the landscape and in its own body. Slow planes indicate the movement and transformation of these almost magical beings , which resist to time and space. The Tree Metamorphosis II , 2016 Video, 6'13" MP4 Black and white / sound The Tree Metamorphosis I, 2016 The Tree Metamorphosis I, 2016 1/10

Private landscapes Exhibition text with the same at Galeria Diferença in Lisbon Carla Rebelo's exhibition in Galeria Diferença's square space presents two pieces from 2013 for the first time exhibited in Lisbon. Private landscapes, which lends its name to this exhibition of works and Gone to Earth are two installations made up of a series of mirrors covered by a deep black that simultaneously conceal and reveal fragments of landscapes. Like a Mirror by Claude, a device used to frame the eye in the observation of nature until the 19th century. XIX, these pieces contain a captive image on their surface, as if the landscapes that these mirrors framed had been printed on them, just as a camera would do. Inverting the function of reflecting what surrounds them, however, these mirrors seem to hide what is around them, revealing their own reality, visible in the black drawing inscribed on their surface but also in the projection that emanates from them. The horizontality where the landscape fragments are drawn returns to our gaze the verticality of an image that exposes another nature, the reflection, the shadow, the negative of the drawing itself. Like Narcissus, we are invited to dive into the contemplation of a mirrored surface, and what we discover is not so much our image, but the substance that inhabits it, a "body" projected from the inside out, or a memory that becomes visible image, perhaps the memory of who, at one time, used these mirrors to frame his gaze. We are a family owned and operated business. Carla Rebelo April 2018

Installation Unrest , 2010 Wood, silk threads, table with mirror, wooden piece with 24 bobines and polypropylene threads Variable dimensions Text Exhibition Unrest and G ame of illusions were two installations created for the exhibition The other side in 2010 Unrest, 2010 Unrest, 2010 1/5 Game of illusions , 2010 Half wooden table, half book and mirror with black pen drawing Variable dimensions Game of illusions , 2010 Game of illusions , 2010 1/5

Installation Ulysses , 2014 Red threads of different materials, wood, bamboo, stones and lemon tree Variable dimensions

The arrow of time About the exhibition A moment that is repeated over and over Águas Águas Gallery, 8 in Lisbon Manuel Valente Alves Time is not seen or heard. It is situated in a mysterious way below and beyond perceptions and sensations. It has no smell or taste, does not touch, is neither hot nor cold, neither dry nor humid. However, his passage almost always leaves marks on things and beings, in the tangible reality of the world. And there are signs of time that are constructed by the human being, such as artistic and technoscientific artefacts, architecture, streets and city squares, which evoke historical times. Also the days and nights and the seasons, natural phenomena that are repeated in an infinite circularity, are the origin of many of our ideas about time. The inner time, impossible to measure, reflects aspects of human subjectivity, such as thought, love, passion, hatred ... But time itself is also an object of thought. As in this exhibition by Carla Rebelo, “A moment that is repeated continuously”, a pause in time, a kind of still that is repeated endlessly. A stop of time to reflect on it, looking at the infinite that is before and ahead of us. During this interminable pause, time becomes an object, a body that Carla Rebelo gradually dissects. Reversibility and irreversibility, finitude and restlessness, sky and earth, water and fire seem to converge in the discovery of the anatomy and physiology of time, a universe of endless and visual, semantic and other relationships and webs. In spite of the passing time, the ever faster acceleration of all kinds of speeds, this genetic work is both frozen time and time in motion, “a moment that is repeated continuously”, an archeology of knowledge, experiences, experiences and feelings. Carla Rebelo creates a totality from fragments, a time out of time that inhabits the materiality of her sculptures, the beauty of her drawings and books. There are lines that intersect and interweave, fabrics, leaves, bark… The moment that Carla Rebelo's art calls for is both an interior time, lived and eternalized, and an exterior time, delimited by history, which looks to the past and protrudes into the future. No discontinuities. As in parallel mirrors in which the self-between-mirrors multiplies into reflected images that dissolve in an endless perspective. Carla Rebelo's art is a science of continuity. Everything connects to everything. It is a slowly woven web, through which we rediscover the infinite complexity of the world, the timelessness of art. Many of the ideas made about time, nature, life are dismantled here. Like the ideas of birth and death. Birth and death do not exist in the natural world. They are pre-concepts designed to make the world intelligible, to adapt the infinite complexity of the world to the limitations of human thought. There is an infinite before us and after us, generations that succeed and connect with each other. Without being able to reveal, even in the confines of time, any cell, molecule or atom that we can designate as matrix. And death, what we call death, will only be a mere transformation of matter, a change of state. In criticisms of the big bang theory, genetic theories are often compared with myths. Which is understandable. Both genetic theories and myths seek to go back, to go back through the flow of time. Some and others try to reach the zero degree of a knowledge process that aims to make the birth of the universe, of life and of the human being intelligible. In the absence of mathematical models, myths feed on intellectual speculation. Classical science, on the other hand, focuses attention on continuous variations. Genetic processes will only begin to be addressed with the birth of embryology. As embryological processes cannot be reduced to continuous variations, given their extreme complexity, science, unable to theorize them, will, for a long time, be confined to its description. Today, genetics and problems of complexity are at the forefront of scientists' concerns, and inspire research that goes very far in the knowledge of phenomena, often linking science to art, the finite to the infinite. Life is metamorphosis, eternal metamorphosis. Between mirrors, projections of space, leaves that slowly change in texture and shape, books and sculptures, Carla Rebelo's work evokes a subjective time that projects beyond the limits of the ruler and the compass, nature and the senses, and proposes a reflection on temporality. Yours, ours, the world. An arrow of time that flies both ways, without zigzagging. We are a family owned and operated business. Manuel Valente Alves

Projects Drawings in Shadow, 2011 Istanbul - The city and memory In the context of the project Travel to the interior of the lived cities I made an open residency in 2011 at Drawing Spaces in Lisbon. My project was to create a series of drawings based on my research experience in the city of Istanbul. Based on material collected on site, such as photographs, sounds or video images, a set of works were created that mirror the relationship established with this city. The Fort's Dream - (Fragment) , 2013 Video 13'00" Color/Sound Untitled, 2011 (small stories about Istanbul) Light table and set of two drawings Chinese ink on white paper 50X70cm (approximately) Untitled , 2011 Red elastics, nails, spotlight and sound installation Variable dimensions Drawing/Installation Drawings in Shadow, 2011 Overviews of the presentation of the work Open Residence - Drawing Spaces In memory, 2011 In memory, 2011 1/4 Untitled, 2011 Untitled, 2011 1/6 Untitled, 2011 Untitled, 2011 1/6 Exhibition overview - Drawing in Shadow Exhibition overview - Drawing in Shadow 1/11

Projects Where do my paths lead me , was a piece created in 2004 in the context of the exhibition Dressing Up Nature, a Site-specific project for the Monteiro Mor Park, Costume Museum in Lisbon. In this project, the aim was to create connections, from a contemporary perspective, between the Textile universe represented by the Museum and the environment of the Park where it is installed. This project was produced by the collective of artists participating in the exhibition from an idea of Carla Rebelo. Where do my paths lead me , 2004 Steel cables, artificial silk and cotton textile cables, red plastic coated copper wire and red aluminum ladder Site-specific installation of variable dimensions Where do my paths lead me Performance held on July 17, 2004 Dressing up Nature Exhibition Carla Rebelo dressed by Marisa Lourenço Where do my paths lead me, 2004 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 1/9 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 1/5

Installation Drawing I, 2009 Red elastics, wall nails and shadow Variable dimensions Drawing/Installation Drawing I and II are two drawings/installations created for the Drawing my numbers exhibition in 2009 Drawing I, 2009 drawing by numbers 044 Drawing I, 2009 1/4 Drawing II , 2009 Copper wire covered with plastic in various colors, graphite pencil drawing and shadow Approximately 120x200x15cm Drawing / Installation Drawing II, 2009 Drawing II, 2009 1/4

Installation Penelope, 2014 Wood, cotton, wool, linen and silk thread, linen ball, instrument for weaving, chair and lead weights Variable dimensions

Installation A garden for my desires, 2002 Carnations, wire and wood An installation for 7 days Variable dimensions 1st day 3rd day 5th day 7th day