Luís Silveirinha (Portugal, 1968) “…These plants are transition points, states of becoming that respond to the light that strikes them. They foresee language and sight: they are formal experiences that owe little to botany and get away from any cataloguing – everything points to an idea of nature that ends up more expensive to the body than the field. Bachelard used to talk about material imagination well mirrored here – the matrix image is forsaken in favor of these new images that dwell within the artist and take on material form through his hands. They follow one another, don’t repeat and form a truly infinite kineticism. Each drawing arises from a previous silence, like the product of a patient listening of the matter. It is though we were witnessing a moment of becoming, the instant before the eruption. An attempt of capturing the invisible pulse that precedes the form...” – Daniel Madeira