Pedro Cabrita Reis
Building
Having represented Portugal at the 2013 Venice Biennale and exhibited extensively across the world, Pedro Cabrita Reis is one of the country’s most high-profile artists. He takes industrial materials – metal bars, neon lighting, and electrical wires – and uses them to take over the exhibition space itself. His ‘A remote whisper’ for the Venice exhibition did just this, and even added workmen’s jackets to emphasize the process of creation in art. Some works, such as ‘The Moscow Piece’– a neon light, some shoddily applied paint, loose wire hanging – takes this motif to an extreme, almost as if attempting to deceive the viewer into mistaking the work for a building site.
