The Rehearsal of Space

Edgar Martins

In 'the rehearsal of space' urbanism is portrayed as a movement of isolation.


In 'The rehearsal of space', the artist operates within a landscape of uncertainty, within a culture landscape of permanent flux, transition and opposition.
Spaces are primed with a sense of purpose yet they are marginal, fragmented and dispersed.


A stage for the encounter with the everyday, this work calls to our attention that all is flow, all boundaries are provisional, all space is permeable.
At times this work seems to question whether the city as a totality escapes the perception of the individual; whether our experience of place, as a whole, has become an incipient forum of disruptive experiences and expression; whether the movement of information and people and the commodification of cultural forms outlines a unique body of flow and false consciousness.


But at other times it simply proposes that we are no longer mere transients.


'The rehearsal of space' is a journey of recognition: the city and, in a broader sense, space, as our object of understanding is changing and because of this one needs to find a new critical language that supports it, and a new system of knowledge from which to derive our glossary of life.

venue: City Art Gallery