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The present initiative transposes images and sensations referred by an artistic experiment from 2024 into the current dimension of text and its potential for reflection. This work was conducted in the public space of Coimbra (Portugal) by the artist Edicleison de Freitas with the participation of walking others. As an act of collective breadth, through themes of family and memory, through the open combination of imaginations with its varied situational audience, and through the confrontation of the city via the poetic mechanisms of contemporary art, the artist aimed to propose a very specific expansion on the matter of time. This approach involves the body succeeding as an agency (an appropriation/use of it) of a performed Mummy, calling upon the artist’s emotional remnants that merge with affective ruins echoed from the audience, in a process that excavates from narratives to the inventive faces of art, perhaps to exhume and save the deads ones of the actors involved, both visible and invisible within the city.

The present initiative transposes images and sensations referred by an artistic experiment from 2024 into the current dimension of text and its potential for reflection. This work was conducted in the public space of Coimbra (Portugal) by the artist Edicleison de Freitas with the participation of walking others. As an act of collective breadth, through themes of family and memory, through the open combination of imaginations with its varied situational audience, and through the confrontation of the city via the poetic mechanisms of contemporary art, the artist aimed to propose a very specific expansion on the matter of time. This approach involves the body succeeding as an agency (an appropriation/use of it) of a performed Mummy, calling upon the artist’s emotional remnants that merge with affective ruins echoed from the audience, in a process that excavates from narratives to the inventive faces of art, perhaps to exhume and save the deads ones of the actors involved, both visible and invisible within the city.

The present initiative transposes images and sensations referred by an artistic experiment from 2024 into the current dimension of text and its potential for reflection. This work was conducted in the public space of Coimbra (Portugal) by the artist Edicleison de Freitas with the participation of walking others. As an act of collective breadth, through themes of family and memory, through the open combination of imaginations with its varied situational audience, and through the confrontation of the city via the poetic mechanisms of contemporary art, the artist aimed to propose a very specific expansion on the matter of time. This approach involves the body succeeding as an agency (an appropriation/use of it) of a performed Mummy, calling upon the artist’s emotional remnants that merge with affective ruins echoed from the audience, in a process that excavates from narratives to the inventive faces of art, perhaps to exhume and save the deads ones of the actors involved, both visible and invisible within the city.

A presente iniciativa transpõe imagens e sensações referidas por um experimento artístico de 2024 para a dimensão corrente do texto e seu possível reflexivo, a partir de um trabalho conduzido no espaço público de Coimbra (Portugal), pelo artista Edicleison de Freitas e a participação de terceiros passantes. Enquanto gesto de abrangências coletivas, seja pelos temas da família e da memória, seja pela conjugação aberta dos imaginários junto ao seu respectivo público circunstancial variado, seja, ademais, pelo enfrentamento da cidade através dos mecanismos poéticos da arte contemporânea, quis o artista propor uma dilatação muito específica sobre a matéria do tempo - qual seja: enquanto o corpo sucede-se como agência (um uso/krestai que dele se apodera) de uma Múmia performada, o rito convoca restos emocionais do artista que se aglomera com ruínas afetivas reverberadas do seu público, em um procedimento que escava das narrativas para os rostos inventivos da arte, talvez por exumar e salvar os mortos dos atores envolvidos, então visíveis e invisíveis dentro da cidade.