For keeps

for keeps (idiom)
/fər kiːps/

permanently; indefinitely; in perpetuity;
to seize; to hold; to observe;
to collect; till the end of time.

Noé Sendas lives and works in Berlin, Madrid, and Lisbon. He began presenting his work in the late 1990s. Explicit and implicit references to artists and to literary, cinematic, or musical creations form part of his raw material. Specific concerns related to the reflection on and practice of the visual arts can also be included in his repertoire, namely: the body as an entity that is simultaneously theoretical and material; the mechanisms of the viewer’s perception; and the discursive potential of exhibition methods.

This exhibition brings together the body of works that the artist has preserved over three decades of practice. It presents everything from previously unseen early paintings to more widely recognized series, such as Crystal girl. These works are simultaneously subject to discourses on creation and selection: the artist positions himself as producer or creator, observer, guardian, and collector of his own work.

In this exhibition, he proposes a re-reading of these works from a temporal distance that allows him to revisit intentions and meanings, constructing a discourse from works created at very different moments in his trajectory. This is his third solo exhibition at galeria Carlos Carvalho Arte Contemporânea.