We live in a time that is no longer a passing moment, but one of suspension.
We are not just between one before and one after; we are inside an after that has not yet begun to exist fully. Between successive crises, latent wars and unnamed futures, a diffuse but persistent feeling sets in: something is changing profoundly, not as an event, but as a condition. We inhabit a world in permanent tension, where systems ⎯ affective, social, political ⎯ have lost consistency. We do not live within solid structures, but in precarious balances."
In this context, the question ceases to be "what comes next?" and becomes more urgent, more intimate: what to do with the after? As Simone Weil wrote, it is perhaps in attention to what remains, to what persists despite everything, that a possibility of meaning opens. Not an answer, but a practice: repair, sustain, listen to what still vibrates.
O que fazer com o depois? (What to do with the after?) arises from this insistent and transversal question: what to do after a break, a loss, a crisis, a euphoria, a collapse ⎯ collective or intimate? What to do when what we knew is no longer working, but nothing new has stabilized yet? From a personal disquiet - the "after" of a relationship, of difficult news, of a show that ends ⎯ creation moves to a common territory: the afterword not as a consequence, but as a contemporary state of existence.
A space where time fails,
where gestures seek form,
where the body tries to reorganize itself without a map.
More than answering, this project inhabits this unstable area.
Express the after as sensitive matter: what is left, what insists, what can still be reconfigured. Because maybe the after is not the end of something ⎯ but the place where another form of life, still undefined, begins to be rehearsed.
