A casa térrea [ground floor house], the title of this exhibition, is a poem by Sophia de Mello Breyner. I believe this author feels a relationship between the nakedness of the light of the Algarve and that of Greece. That amazing light, like a hammer, reminds me of the poems of the Greek poet Seferis:

Light is a heartbeat
slower and slower
it seems as if it were going to stop.

It is a sensation as if everything is that light. The light is the object, and what remains is a scorched earth remnant. I imagined the exhibition as filling a void with that earth. Earth that is a trace, a path, the fossil of the gesture. CB

In Torrão Barrio presents a series of ink drawings on Japanese paper, made in his new studio in Lisbon and exhibited as a logbook, with fragments of poems by Sophia de Mello, Rui Nunes, Herberto Helder, or Henri Michaux and Maria Zambrano, which he read while doing this work.