Macau artist Fortes Pakeong Sequeira will have his solo exhibition “Lonely Tones – Works by Fortes Pakeong Sequeira” in AFA Macau. This time Pakeong will have his latest artworks including installation, animation and etc. aims at opening up new perspectives in which the viewer is, fortunately, able to engage.
We tend to generalize on the basis of our given experience of how things are and then believe that we hooked up with the fundamental level of reality. The world might not exist but the world of Fortes Pakeong Sequeira is bigger than its own limits, and his artworks include not just humans but elves and fairies, angels and demons, or maybe they are “unicorns on the far side of the moon”, or maybe they are only sweet and angry cartoons – as all of this exists, all of this is part of the world even if only in imagination and in the artist’s own field of sense.
These Lonely Tones cartoons are not real humans. They don’t exist in the realm of scientific explanation but they do exist in Fortes Pakeong Sequeira’s artworks. In a nutshell, the search for meaning in a world that might not exist is the possibility of engagement with infinite senses and that’s what this exhibition does to the viewer – it opens up new perspectives in which the viewer is, fortunately, able to engage.
In the end, these cartoons are not cartoons anymore — they are a mirror of ourselves at the same time that they are, as in all Fortes Pakeong Sequeira’s artworks, a sincere poignant self-portrait.
When: October 28–November 26, 2017
Where: Ground Floor, Tak Chun Macau, Art for All, Art Garden, 265 Avenida Dr. Rodrigi Rodrigues, Macau
How much: Free admission
For more details, visit www.afamacau.com or +853 2836 6064
