“But a work by the artist stands out in particular in this context, as he dramatically and brilliantly summarizes the silent and never resolved subjugation that absolute time imposes on man. Eva, a 2009 installation presented at the Centro Cultural São Paulo, places Victor Brecheret’s sculpture of the same name between four walls. These walls are made of recycled bricks from catalogs and invitations, and they gradually grow over the days until they completely cover the human figure, imprisoning it even from the outside gaze. If Eve symbolizes the first woman, the archetype of fertility, the mother of all humanity and responsible for the impulse that led Adam (Man) to eat the apple from the tree of knowledge; the walls will clearly represent the unalterable advance of time, the past, the enormous white that swallows history and reduces to pathetic colored dots the words, dates, events, ideas and adventures that man continually pursues in his eagerness to exist.”
(excerpt from the text “Daniel Senise: O Reino e o Tempo, ou, O Tempo do Eterno – O Homem do Efêmero”, by Jorge Emanuel Espinho)
