Présentation
Erased isn't about looking to the past, it's about looking to the future!
In Erased, Paulo Simão evokes Robert Rauschenberg's Erased De Kooning Drawing and, by manipulating a set of images from the US Library of Congress, reframes the archive and develops a series that invites us to a myriad of questions and reflections. Like Rauschenberg, by adding a caption to the photographic image, Paulo Simão assumes that he has erased in order to reveal, that he has removed in order to add, and that what has apparently been censored has never ceased to be there. With his intervention Simão creates a kind of anti-evocative monument and, by isolating the base, he opens up a new perspective and a new approach to artistic work. He also underlines the importance and the role that the artist, artistic work and, in particular, the project, the evocative public work of art assumes in validating certain values, knowledge, historical events or collective memories.