The Centre Cannot Hold (Things Fall Apart), 2018
Floral foam, Light fitting, magazine, plastic cup
16cm x 11cm x 5cm (series of 6)

Exhibition: Sublime, MUTE Gallery, Lisbon, 2019

​Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world...

The Second Coming (W B Yeats, 1919)

A 2016 analysis by research company Factiva showed that lines from the poem were quoted more often in the first seven months of 2016 than in any of the preceding 30 years.[5] In the context of political turmoil after the Brexit referendum and Donald Trump's election, commentators repeatedly invoked its lines: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."[6]

​Wikipedia, 2019

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The Centre Cannot Hold II, 2019
Floral foam, Light fitting, magazine, plastic cup, polystyrene, plastic laminate, wood panel
90 x 15 x 21 cm  

​Nevertheless - Collective exhibition
Atelier Concorde, Lisbon, 2019

Artists: Irene de Andrés, Yuri Firmeza, Maria Rojas, Juan Pablo Ordoñez, Margarida Alves, Nina Fraser, Irit Batsry, João Bento, Paulo Lopes, Natalie Woolf, Eunice Gonçalves, Nuno Godinho, Anne Öhrling Dersèn

​the less, the lens, the lenses,
never let the lenses, never let the lens ever let the less.

"For me, curating is a film, or a piece of theater. A found footage film or a theater of objects, to be more fair. This exhibition is based upon both possibilities. Nevertheless, it is more or less a strategy meant to dialogue within the plot enacted by the market. Easily, we can say that between the product placement in film and the prop made for the stage there is no way out of the marketization."

Curator: Andrés Jurado