This exhibition is a part of a project that the gallery has callled Blitzfrorum, created in 2010. Blitzfrorum is a place for short term projects that completes the calendar of the exhibitions with small events. This way it can be presented from time to time, works of emerging artists, exhibitions in partnership with other galleries, curating projects, performances, video or photography.
At the 8th edition of Blitzforum, the gallery presents the work of Pedro Rapoula with old photos, called "The dahlias sleep in the empty silence”.
"(...) Or as, when an underground train, in the tube, stops too long between stations
And the conversation rises and slowly fades into silence
And you see behind every face the mental emptiness deepen
Leaving only the growing terror of nothing to think about; (...)"
T.S Eliot ou T-minus 42d.
Pedro Rapoula was born in Leiria, Portugal 1977. He lives and works in Bogotá, Colômbia.