Resting Hermes

For this series, made in his old studio in Lisbon, Sendas decided to order 31 identical second hand books on Amazon. During a whole month the postman would arrive and hand over an identical copies of Les Merveilles de L’Art Antique, a book from 1946 edited by Georges DAUX. Everyday during 31 days Sendas would then start a new work using the new copy of the same old book. Sendas likes to plays with notions of time & space, present and past, to guide and place us in an a temporal suspension. In an empty space that is created between the memory of an event and the event itself. Reuse & editing thus become the key to Sendas research and creation. The reuse of real vs fictional characters, the reuse of situations, the reuse of other peoples gaze and even ware & touch, through photographic materials and used & battered objects. In this series Hermes is obsessively re-appropriated, perhaps Sendas is dealing with the actual history and the role of the artist self-representations. Hermes the messenger between humans and gods, the artist the one who connects the visible with the invisible. With Sendas works, we are always poised between a narrative tension, aesthetics and a deep vibration, we are taken to that deep and dark area that escapes the control of the conscience.