Tobe Gallery celebrates its tenth birthday this October and to mark the occasion, we have a number of exciting events in the pipeline. We are delighted to open the autumn season with exhibitions by Luzia Simons (BR) and Patel Rebelo (PT) at Tobe Gallery and Tobe Cabinet. The double opening is linked by the Portuguese language and culture.
The exhibition Evergreen is made up of three series: Stockage, Lustgarten and Jardim, projects that share a common point of exploration of the original, natural evolution and migration of plants.
Luzia Simons’ art offers a deeper understanding of these differences through her own photographic technique, which emphasises foreground and black backgrounds rather than the classic vertical-horizontal image division, and flowers are presented as sculptural forms.
Her work focuses primarily on the diversity and multiplicity of interpretations that arise from different cultural heritages. Her floral compositions carry historical, cultural or colonial meanings and raise questions of social identity and globalisation.
Chovem Árvores / Raining Trees
When the fields were dry, only tears fell from the sky. Covering sons, grandsons and generations, but even so, nothing was nourished, nothing sprouted.
It’s a monotonous way to live. The fault of many and the fault of none.
Perhaps they did not know that in love, in the place of brooding, everyone is welcome, yet few dare to discover what it is like to live there. Free from false illusions and misleading interpretations.
Those lands have dried up for lack of love. Even the sun’s rays could not relinquish them, with their warm and bright gestures eager to curb the gusts of wind that would rush upon them and tear apart everything in their path. But love was not that.
But for those who never stopped believing, a shower of trees showed under the bright moon.
Bright and lush, they lay gently, ready to teach us to think through watering to the millimetre, and that their shade and fruit will only feed us.