"THE ONLY THING SELF-EVIDENT ABOUT THE CONTEMPORARY IS THAT NOTHING CONCERNING THE CONTEMPORARY IS SEFT-EVIDENT ANYMORE" - Joao Ribas, "What To Do With The Contemporary?", Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating, Fiorucci Art Trust with Mousse Editions, Milan, Italy. 2011, p. 67. (From Adorno Statement : "IT IS SELF-EVIDENT THAT NOTHING CONCERNING ART IS SEFL-EVIDENT ANYMORE, NOT ITS INNER LIFE, NOT ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD, NOT EVEN ITS RIGHT TO EXIST", Theodor Adorno, Aesthetic Theory. ______________________________________

The Recent, 2011
Performance/Intervention, Variables Dimensions, Drywall & Paris Plaster

The Contemporary, 2011
Performance/Intervention, Variables Dimensions, Red Paint, Drywall & Paris Plaster

Agency of Essay
My hidden bathroom pharmacy (cabinet), a space acting as a studio agency. Following the contemporary propaganda within global, genealogical and methodological curatorial politics (Joao Ribas, What To Do With The Contemporary?, 2011)