Ápice
Light Installation, as Colectivo Suspeito
Ápice depicts an instant perpetuated in an infinite time.
Materialised as a (dis)charge of energy, memory or emotion,
it evolves until its resolution, being simultaneously beginning and end.
A tiny fragment of the order of the universe, where everything is transformed.
Conceived for a specific location, the work combines in its genesis the features of land-art and
installation,
using light as the fundamental substance to transform a place and its environment.
Being a part of a cultural route "Trilhos Culturais", in Caldas de São Jorge,
the intervention marks the culmination of a nocturnal trail along a section of the Uíma River.
The piece starts from the particle of light,
which progressively transforms its rhythm and form up to a limit point of tension after which it
dissipates.
Thus, it carries out different stages in form,
that seek to describe an event occurring in an instant but which is presented as crystallized.
Water and light share a moment where they meet and then move in the same direction until they diverge.
Its end is a status that marks the resumption of a new cycle - from the scattered matter which gathers
itself up,
takes shape and expands to the point of disintegration again; emphasized by the sonority of the water:
that falls, that runs, that falls again. The relation between water and light, both volatile, almost
intangible,
becomes so intrinsic that beyond the visual reflex,
it produces a metaphorical mirror of its various states, forms, and rhythms along its path in space and
time.
