Hélène Veiga Gomes

Variações da Fé

Hélène Veiga Gomes (Portugal)

 

A corridor, an antechamber, another, the main hall. A poster of Mecca. A source of water. In the distance, the voice calling the faithful. “Variações da fé” (“Variations of Faith”) is an installation that sets out to recreate the symbolic spaces of a contemporary mosque. In researching the ritual dimension of Muslim worship, Hélène Veiga Gomes worked on the basis of how to trans- pose the prayer room to the exhibition room. The ablutions, the removal of shoes and prayer are the three moments staged in this re-enactment, suggesting a gradual demystification of the different sacred elements in order to return to the central issue: how to think about faith. Hélène Veiga Gomes was born in 1986. She works a language which crosses anthropology and visual arts. Lives between Paris and Lisbon.

Curator: António Pinto Ribeiro
In partnership with PRÓXIMO FUTURO (Next Future), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation http://www.proximofuturo.gulbenkian.pt/