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Gravity & Disgrace Ep. II discusses works that do not attempt to illustrate a specific narrative purpose, but rather to enrich the initial context of the exhibit, making it at the same time denser and larger. Bringing these objects together in the CGAC’s Double Space requires a clearer than normal interdependent reading. As a conscious curatorial plan, here it is important to understand that the autonomy of each of these objects is followed by a moment of crossing discourses that could be generally defined as interrogations regarding what is real as a self-defining, historical and social construction.

Observation, compilation, indexation, discovery, re-creation. In an oeuvre marked by silent gestures, Fernando Casás (Gondomar, Pontevedra, Spain, 1946) has maintained a constant relationship of curiosity vis-à-vis nature. The traces left by the passing of time, endlessly mutating entropic states and forms, encountered in the depths of the tropical forest or in the lush Galician countryside, are the determining factors in a creative journey spanning more than forty years. From Brazil, where he started his career as an artist, and Galicia, the region of his birth, this retrospective exhibition showcases an oeuvre born of a unique thoughtful and conceptual resolve, which can just as easily reveal itself in painting or sculpture as it can in ephemeral actions or specific interventions, such as the recently created works conceived for the exhibition spaces of the CGAC.