Júlio Alves

Awareness of the body as a whole exists at the moment when one is facing an empty canvas, when everything remains to be done

Fortunately, there is memory and also history that contextualize our actions. Without memory it would be even more difficult to understand

Making places a plastic material different from the general idea that most people have is the natural consequence of transforming them

The representation of the landscape is not limited to a physical space, it has fundamentally to do with the perception of a place

Will we ever understand what surrounds us simply by explaining how it works or if on the contrary it is necessary to use other instruments

In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, on the high slopes of the island of Madeira, I found the Laurissilva forest.

I glimpsed in the distance what seemed to me to be a group of people lying on a dune, motionless and fixing something in the distance.

During the opening of the “Vivificatur” exhibition, a young man approached me and asked about the meaning of the painting “Eagle Vision”.