Open Passagi -  Studies to Petrify Leaves #2

Ebó-installation, 2018

Aroeira, purple pinion, lightning rod, rosemary, rue, boldo and eucalyptus

Petrified Akòko leaves; terracotta pottery, 2017-2018

2.10 mx 1.20 m

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Motumbá, kolofé, Mukuiu, greetings!

To my elders. To the  Òrìṣàs. To the waters and all.

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Open Passagi is a cross path, a crossroads thrown into the river, suspended and seated at the same time.

It crosses the river, between banks, imposes itself to be revered, opens up space.

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One way  of earth, even if in the form of a leaf that has been petrified.

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Leaves collected in the territories of faith and resistance.

Open Passagi is an Ebó-installation of a request for permission, of thanks and of reaffirmation of the need to talk about.

It is the opening of paths, it is the demarcation of space, it is an epistemic crossroads.

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We would like to start by putting a break in the visibility domain. We would like to start by tracing a cartography that does not depend on the idea of location. We would like to begin by proposing an interdisciplinary and fugitive compositional practice. We would like to start by thinking about the destruction of the world as we know it as a form of care. We would like to start with the decolonization of colonized matter. We'd like to start with a sword cutting through the wound-world. We would like to start with a grammar convulsion. We would like to start with an accident in perception.

Jota Mombasa and Musa Michele Matiuzzi, Letter to the black reader of the end of time

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400 bunches of seven herbs are suspended - over a path of petrified Akòko leaves that cover the floor. The leaves create paths that draw sounds and understand the time to repeat.

The work participated in the exhibition  Ceramic Fictions – Clay Policies,  at the Floating Show, 2018.

Photos: Juliano Varela