One right thing, one wrong thang.
When we were little, we skinned both our knees, with our knees skinned, we climbed a very tall staircase, taller than the pine tree, taller than the cypress. We kept climbing, staircases that turned into towers, towers that turned into palaces. It felt as though spring was playing a trick on us. So we decided that from then on we would never lie again, from then on we would never be ourselves again. Then we fell from top to bottom, we hit rock bottom and we screamed! We screamed for years, an old, mouldy scream, until a cricket, a friend of the scream, came out of our mouths. We looked at it and asked: when will the snow come?, when will time end?, when will the festivities begin? It replied: chirp chirp.
Coisa-Ponta stems from a long-standing affinity between Ana Rita Teodoro and Márcia Lança: back in 1999, when they saw surrealist art together for the first time. This event opened up a fascinating crack that led them to embark on an artistic practice guided by putting to sleep what is intended deliberately as a means of accessing the unimaginable. Surrealism also afforded them a multifaceted space that no single discipline could provide on its own – being a surrealist is a Serious-Thing.
In this piece, they seek to bring their ethical and aesthetic affinity into dialogue with surrealist techniques and processes. By activating their modes of practice as a compositional strategy – the interweaving of materials, the suspension of conscious action, the bringing together of things that would, in principle, be separate – Coisa-Ponta creates a disparate space where the sensible and the nonsensical reign as random queens.