you want it darker is the title of the exhibition by Fernando Sampaio Amaro that opens tomorrow, the 4th of November, at Galeria Trem, in Vila-Adentro de Faro, where it can be seen until January 31th.
According to the artist, it is the «result of a journey of recognition, in the polysemic sense of the term».
The exposure You Want It Darker “It borrows its name from Leonard Cohen's fourteenth studio album, released 17 days before the Canadian singer-songwriter's death. The album's theme focuses on death, darkness, God. With humor in the mix», he explains.
«The present works also allude to that darkness, to suffering, to persecutions and injustices, to existential doubts, to the absurd. Result of (re)readings, during the pandemic and prolonged confinement, namely the return to the Book of Disquiet by Bernardo Soares, of The plague and of O Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus, by (re)visiting Beckett, Arrabal, Ionesco, Vian, Buñuel, by philosophers (Nietzsche, of course), the works seek to reflect on the world, this increasingly strange and inhuman place».
«For Camus, the absurdity of life is an imperative for art, because, according to him, “If the world were clear, art would not exist.” The world is not clear. Before dark. Nietzsche states that “only art can transform the disorder of the world into beauty and make acceptable everything that is problematic and terrible in life”, adding that “we have the art not to die from the truth”, says Fernando Sampaio Amaro.
The exhibition, «which trip was planned to be one thing, turned out to be another (a very frequent phenomenon in trips, let's face it). The waters, which wanted to be serene, were, however, agitated by the aforementioned (re)readings, revisits and reflections, causing the predicted course to change, suggesting stops, derivations and deviations, as time went by passed. The restlessness set in, bringing with it a sea of doubts and ambiguities, of anxieties and alarms. you want it darker that's all,” he concludes.
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