Gonçalo Albergaria
I thought Country was something else, but found it is something else, 2019
Mixed-media installation
Variable dimensions
I thought Country was something else, but found it is something else, 2019
Mixed-media installation
Variable dimensions
PT | ENG
“I thought Country was something else, but found it is something else is a static, moving inducer of discontinuity.
The transitional has rhythm. An entanglement of transitions has even more rhythm - never being clad with despondency, it is a brazen one.
The transitional state is the presence of a vital harmony, and exists in my physical and subconscious experience of Country. My work is a window into a personal dreamscape, one that betrays the two dimensions with a distorted three dimensional experience.
It represents the changes I have experienced, both in the present and perceived Australian bush and its history.
My installation maps the splinters of distortions I encountered, through both visual and dream memory. It is a fissure into space, which aims to understand the junction between an acknowledgement of reality and its tautened abruptness. The viewer is invited to journey through a sequential view of starting points. These potential junctions into the unconscious, map my recollection of my journey in Country. They represent many things: a reverie of landscapes and memory latitudes; a conclave of the beautiful pleading for mutual understanding.
This installation is dedicated to Yuin/ Monaroo man, Darren Mongta.”
- Gonçalo Albergaria
“I thought Country was something else, but found it is something else is a static, moving inducer of discontinuity.
The transitional has rhythm. An entanglement of transitions has even more rhythm - never being clad with despondency, it is a brazen one.
The transitional state is the presence of a vital harmony, and exists in my physical and subconscious experience of Country. My work is a window into a personal dreamscape, one that betrays the two dimensions with a distorted three dimensional experience.
It represents the changes I have experienced, both in the present and perceived Australian bush and its history.
My installation maps the splinters of distortions I encountered, through both visual and dream memory. It is a fissure into space, which aims to understand the junction between an acknowledgement of reality and its tautened abruptness. The viewer is invited to journey through a sequential view of starting points. These potential junctions into the unconscious, map my recollection of my journey in Country. They represent many things: a reverie of landscapes and memory latitudes; a conclave of the beautiful pleading for mutual understanding.
This installation is dedicated to Yuin/ Monaroo man, Darren Mongta.”
- Gonçalo Albergaria