and life goes on

and life goes on

and life goes on is the assumption of the journey and the re-encounter with a world already different after the relentless passage of time.

After multiple graphic essays, which he carried out over 472 days, Rui Manuel Vieira presents, in this series of three drawings, the culmination of this journey with a depuration of the line itself.

and life goes on echoes itself as the liveliest expression of the common, as well as the intersection of a huge archive of references that allude to the poetics of that same common.

Positive and negative, image and mould, work and process intersect, overlap and unfold in tenuous layers, rigorously organized in the white space of the paper.

and life goes on constitutes the expression imprinted by the indelible gesture of inscribing stroke and word. At the same time, summoning a gaze of contemplation and our attention to what belongs to the invisible, to the work of the ‘outside’ or, even, to an(other) intuition about the very creative essay of life itself.