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Darkness Reflexions  

an exhibition by Margarida Sardinha

Casa Fernando Pessoa presents Darkness Reflexions, an exhibition by

Margarida Sardinha a young emergent Portuguese artist who lives and

works in London. Margarida does site-specific light installation work

based on philosophical ideas related with the creative process and its

relationship with the eternal evolution of thought, creativity, knowledge

and culture. The usage of the contrast between light and dark, space and

void creates a narrative in most of her work, which interacts with the

viewer from the particular to the universal on a spiritual and introspective

level.

This is the her first solo show for which she conceived three site-specific

installations and a sketchbook (catalogue) based on the idea of memory as a

fundamental section of each individual; there are personalities and

subjects which are common to the whole world, some only to a specificcountry and there are also some that only relate to a sole family… She

considered Fernando Pessoa ’s immortality in Portuguese literature and

culture as a contribution to the growth process, leading us (Portuguese) to

a different stage of knowledge. Pessoa praised diversity above uniformity

and through his work he assured us that Human improvement is based upon

multiplicity rather than unification or purification. His multiple

personalities (heteronyms) interact in parallel and none is more truthfulor powerful than other, they exist in our Memory horizontally apart as a

Whole.

To “Know” Fernando Pessoa is therefore: to “Remember” him…

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Darkness Reflexions “remembers” in an intuitive, symbolic and artistic way

Pessoa ’s creative process and its influence in the development of our

culture by using a hermetic cabalistic parallelism related with his

heteronyms (Masters – knowledge nature ’s stages and degrees). As a visualsource for this Gnostic allegory that lies upon the poet ’s research on the

Rosicrucian, Masonic and theosophical initiation methods appears the

Sacred Geometry and the Kabala Tree of Life as the support image and

structure for the exhibition. The study and research done in ancient

geometrical shapes and solids metaphorically reveal Fernando Pessoa ’s

evolution between one stage of spirit-conscience and other. The show also

presents the usage of 3D imagery, which gives us a personal and non-dogmatic experience about the analogy of the spiritual in the material.

This three-dimensional experience alludes to a superior frequencies

dimension and the eternal transcendence reached by Fernando Pessoa

through his work and esoteric initiations. The ascendant and descendant

dialectic of the gnosiologic dualism is being represented by a mirrors and

projections game in which the traveling light relates to the creative process

fragmentation and unification; it also connects with the four stages of

knowledge and transmigration of Plato ’s Cave Allegory and these relate

respectively with the four main personalities of Pessoa. This transmutation

is mystically also explored in Alchemy in which the Philosopher’s Stone

and its virtues are here exposed by nature images inserted in geometrical

solids.

The Darkness Reflexions exhibition is an allegory to the constant

confrontation of all past and present creative processes in order to achieve

the Absolute Truth, the Absolute Knowledge, the Absolute Justice and the

Absolute Emotion through all the ways imaginarily possible. . .

London 2003