“O Som Que Vem de Longe” by Cassio Markowski

09.07.2021 ------> 23.10.2021

“We can never fully recover what has been forgotten. And maybe it’s good that way...” — Walter Benjamin

For Walter Benjamin, we can count on the strength of things that were left behind—not in the nostalgic impossibility of recovering them as they were, but in the perspective of creating with them an unfinished and open actuality.

In The sound that comes from afar, we look at childhood as a potential operator of resistance, reanimating sensations, rhythms, and languages. We use drawing—sometimes in paper cutouts, sometimes in geometric structures and patterns—to evoke childhood space as a place of first memory, where echoes of the past reverberate in the present. Echoes of what we have lived and heard, which free or imprison us, and which are crucial to thinking about what we are today.

Cássio Markowski (b. 1972) is a Brazilian visual artist whose inventive practice unfolds through a constant negotiation between different means of expression, including drawing, installation, collage, video, engraving, and painting. Through autobiographical and fictional narratives—where his own ethnic and cultural hybridity emerges as a central question—he composes conceptual images that explore the dream of visual language and the relationships between human beings and nature. His works create a poetics revolving around memory, identity, and childhood.

He graduated in Visual Arts from the Center of Arts at the University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) and completed a Master’s in Research and Creation in Arts and Sciences of the Spectacle at the University of the Basque Country (Spain). After living and working in Poland and Spain, he currently lives and works in Almada, Portugal.