RE\VERSE: an elegiac e-poem
REVERSE: an elegiac e-poem (2020-21) results from the collaboration between cyberliterary artist collective wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 (Diogo Marques / João Santa Cruz) and visual artist Daniela Reis during the first 40 days after the Covid-19 pandemic status (March – April 2020).Following a random plus (pre-)combinatorial logic, 40 textual verses and 40 pictorial fragments intertwine in order to provoke a self-reflexive reading of the verse(s) and reverse(s) characterizing the experience of confinement.
Combined, image and text (un)veil a dialogic path that, although necessarily entropic, is made of continuous renewal.
(Source: Author's abstract)
REVERSO: e-poema elegíaco (2020-21) resulta de uma colaboração entre o coletivo wr3ad1ng d1g1t5 (Diogo Marques / João Santa Cruz) e a pintora Daniela Reis durante os primeiros 40 dias que se seguiram à declaração de pandemia de Covid-19 (março - abril de 2020).
Seguindo uma lógica aleatória, 40 versos e 40 fragmentos pictóricos entrelaçam-se a fim de provocarem uma leitura autoreflexiva do (s) verso(s) e reverso(s) que caracterizam a experiência de confinamento. Combinados, imagem e texto (re)velam um caminho dialógico que, embora necessariamente entrópico, é feito de contínua renovação.
Special thanks to:
Ana Gago; Bruno Martins; Gabriel Pinto; Ricardo Soares; Diana Simões
Original text: "Poema Quarentena", by Diogo Marques (originally published at Project Art in Quarantine" [https://wreading-digits.com/art-in-quarantine/]
Translation: Diogo Marques
Original paintings: "The Sanity Diaries series", by Daniela Reis [https://danielareis.pt/work/sanity-diaries-series/]
Music & Sound Programming: João Santa Cruz
Captions from original paintings: Bruno Martins [http://brunomartins.pt]
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