Sob o ímpeto de já não saber quem sou (ou ainda não saber) Fui ficando amarada na neblina dos dias Fui hoje chocalhada pelo vento dos tempos Na tempestade onde me encontro não há caminho Mas sigo Todo o ser está moribundo já não é a minha alma que dói é a deles Onde fico Padeço
Category: Literature
The name Agnès
Already several people made me a face or wondered why I gave this name to my studio. The answer is not simple, although it is very logical to me. I can list a few names such as Agnès Varda or Agnes de Mille. Women who inspire me and whose legacy deserves to be honored, but that’s not why.
Two decades ago, in the library of the village where I grew up, I saw a photographic exhibition of abandoned girls in China. Due to the traditional preference for a boy and the law of the only child, many girls were abandoned or even killed. In the middle of this exhibition, I saw a picture of a 2-3-year-old girl with pink ribbons on her head. She was standing in the middle of many newborn babies, alone, with an expression of purity and unique beauty.
I have observed that image for many hours, for many days. She is my Agnès.
Agnes is a Latinized form of the Greek name ‘Αγνη (
Nevertheless, each letter of the word has
L’Agnès
- L – Lunar / Luz (Light) /Local: Is the importance that I give to the stories of the places where I intervene, my preference for writing with objects a message that can last in time. It is also
the wonderful way of drawing the spaces with the most beautiful material that exists, the light. - A – Amor (Love
) : Architecture is shelter and shelter is love. It is a reminder to myself, what should prevail. - G – Gratidão (Gratitude): To the places that let themselves be unveiled, the people who put their dreams in me, the materials they allow themselves to be shaped, to those who transform them. To the spirits that fill the spaces and give them life.
- N –
Nostalgia : From the place that we call home and that I search unceasingly for each project. - E – Engenho (ingenious) / Empatia (empathy): To see things from another angle and to reinvent. Empathy to never forget that I am not the target of my creation.
- S – Sensibilidade (sensitivity) / Sombra (shadow):Let the spaces and objects breathe and become what they should be. Create atmosphere. “The wonderful light that the shadow has.”
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Gandhi no século XXI
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi lutou toda a vida contra a injustiça, em prol dos mais fracos e pela igualdade. Se olharmos em retrospectiva para as suas lutas podemos constatar que são hoje ainda mais pungentes, nas falhas e feridas.
Dreams
” (…) eu, que, desperto na encruzilhada, não sabia de onde viera.” – Bernardo Soares
Procurar respostas ou deixar-se ir, permanecer debaixo da água por tempo indefinido e sair ileso.
Idealizar respostas, alcançar o inatingível e, ainda processar todas as informações, catalogar os trajectos de uma outra vida.
Ser-se arrastado de volta par uma dimensão diversa e recomeçar…
Seguir, ou ficar parado; transgredir ou permanecer submerso; enfrentar ou virar as costas? No final tudo se resume a um simples processo, despertar!
Acordar numa realidade imaginária, numa encruzilhada vivencial, sonhar o irreal de uma verdade quotidiana.
Estar desperto e andar como quem dorme, dormir e viver como quem existe.
“I, who, despair at the crossroads, did not know where I came from.”
Dreams are a mixture of desire and reality. In them each Being possesses the dimension of his imaginary, of his soul. There is no right or wrong, false or true, linguistic, temporal or geographical barriers. Look for answers or let yourself go, stay underwater indefinitely and leave unscathed.
Idealize answers, achieve the unattainable and still process all the information, catalog the tracks of another life.
Being dragged back into a different dimension and starting over …
Follow, or stand still; transgress or remain submerged; face or turn away? In the end it all comes down to a simple process, wake up!
To wake up in an imaginary reality, at an experiential crossroads, to dream the unreal of a daily truth.
Be awake and walk as those who sleep, sleep and live as one exists.
“Some have in their lives a great dream and they lack that dream. Others have no dream in their lives, and they lack that too. “- Bernardo Soares