LOOPFair2020 The

#LOOPFair2020 - The selection We are happy to announce that UMA LULIK (Lisbon) @umalulik will participate to the LOOP Fair again! This time with a video by Portoguese artist Paulo Arraiano @pauloarraiano (1977), titled “INHALE, EXHALE [self breathing kit]” - 2020. “Sometimes one encounters a boundary along which two elements are coming together or pulling apart, with momentous consequences. When two opposing energies, like liquid and gas or warm and cold meet, they do not mix as one might suppose. Each keeps its own individuality. When one gains supremacy, the other retreats, creating new phenomena in the wake. Paulo Arraiano’s inspiration for many of his works is the sea near the Azores with fault lines where tectonic plates come together/pull apart. The movements of these plates is a force shaping the materials and features of our planet. Below the bursting seams of the open wound lies a sort of smithy forging of materials, which bubbling to the surface carry important elements. Can this place where heat and water meet be the cradle of life? This dragging, pulling, rising, bulging and evermoving action animating our world?” (Excerpt from the curatorial text by Borbála Soós, written to introduce the presentation of the video at Travessa da Ermida, Portugal). #LOOPBarcelona #LOOPFair2020 #fairselection #videoartfair #movingimage #pauloarraiano #tumalulik #ecosystems #ocean #azores #planetearth #wavese #supremacy #naturalphenomena