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gas foraday
22/03/2016 – 28/04/2016
Balcony - Lisbon, Portugal.
But when
the blue is erased, the uniform,
shines the matt, that is like marblestone, like ore,
indication of riches...
(Hölderlin, What Is Men's Life?)
Knowledge is an obscure thing. The image of a bowl holding the cosmos within is our universe that begins, as one who collects food, matter, experiences. The narrative of time accumulates stories imagined, observed, projected, omitted.
An idea of history's precariousness. The extreme fragility of the universe contained in a bowl, on the pages we read, on libraries, museums, schools, in the memories we build. The indefinite idea of history, the future in the projected expectation, a part of the very time of possibility for anything - the time that can be, the history to be made.
If we focused on the cosmic dimension of personal stories that intersect, confound and transfigure themselves to create constellations, we would not fail to notice the visible intensity of each representation. Each cosmic body would need our attention so that, sharing it with others, we could begin to draw, reproduce, show and narrate its story.
The announcement of the universe as the backdrop of the image: between lightness and combustion, what we narrate is also image by word; symbols and sounds that make up other images, stories waiting for a visual interpretation. Like the bowl, the possibility of visualization contains a logical unit of meaning - it is real what is necessary, not necessarily what exists. A mysterious drive for reconciliation with reality acts permanently upon us. We look and sometimes we find out.
Sandra Vieira Jürgens
![Instalation View at Balcony [1]
Photo: João Neves
[1] https://balcony.pt/](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/1_-_instalation_view_1.jpg?itok=bqi1qmW0)
Photo: João Neves
![Left / Right Incomplete Combustion (2018)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper, bonded on 5mm PVC;
black aluminium frame - 65x55cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/2_-_incomplete_combustion.jpg?itok=CJFH1uB9)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper, bonded on 5mm PVC;
black aluminium frame - 65x55cm
![NGN, April 2000, p. 13 - 14 (2017) / NGN, December 1994, p. 34 - 35 (2107) /
NGN, August 1996, p. 84-85 (2017) / NGN, June 2017, p. 54 - 55 (2017) / NGN,
December 1994, p. 18 -19 (2017) / NGN, December 1981, p. 797 - 799 (2017) /
NGN, January 1995, p. 62 - 63 (2017)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper, bonded on 5mm PVC;
black aluminium frame - 50x35cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/3_-_ngn.jpg?itok=7NsbPOUx)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper, bonded on 5mm PVC;
black aluminium frame - 50x35cm
![NGN, January 1995, p. 62 - 63 (2017)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/nekh_04.jpg?itok=RS0tm6-G)
![NGN, December 1994, p. 18 -19 (2017)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/nekh_05.jpg?itok=nKKOx6oA)
![NGN, December 1981, p. 797 - 799 (2017)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/nekh_11.jpg?itok=hclkomAr)
![NGN, June 2017, p. 54 - 55 (2017)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/nekh_09.jpg?itok=QyYCpjkq)
![NGN, December 1994, p. 34 - 35 (2017)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/nekh_10.jpg?itok=kdfrj1RQ)
![NGN, August 1996, p. 84-85 (2017)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/nekh_07.jpg?itok=1ZrPaVAI)
![NGN, April 2000, p. 13 - 14 (2017)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/nekh_08.jpg?itok=LiaEcvcW)
![Deep Water Diver (2018)
Leg-support of drafting table, gas canister Galp, hose, football pop-up goal,
gym ball, diving fins, bodyboard fins.](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/4_-_deep_water_diver_r.jpg?itok=Tbh_8tje)
Leg-support of drafting table, gas canister Galp, hose, football pop-up goal, gym ball, diving fins, bodyboard fins.
![Utopia (2018)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 35x25cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/utopia_1.jpg?itok=LDzT46Rt)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 35x25cm
![Utopia (2018)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/11-utopia.jpg?itok=V0jfvSWq)
![Instalation View at Balcony [1]
Photo: João Neves
[1] https://balcony.pt/](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/5-instalation_view_2.jpg?itok=f5OIdnAl)
Photo: João Neves
![Right Heel (2018)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper, bonded on 5mm PVC;
black aluminium frame - 130x100cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/gas_porumdia-14_0.jpg?itok=r2nbUAk1)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper, bonded on 5mm PVC;
black aluminium frame - 130x100cm
![Right Heel (2018)](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/18-calcanhar_direito.jpg?itok=OBuhOmm5)
![Gaspromanoide (2017)
Hat and coat stand KNIPPE, 5 synthetic pom poms, gas burner, multilayer
tubes, polyethylene insulation tube, flexible tube, 2 anti-stress balls, 2
balls Kong, stone from the beach of Castelejo.](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/6-instalation_view_3_0.jpg?itok=HLHWhw9c)
Hat and coat stand KNIPPE, 5 synthetic pom poms, gas burner, multilayer tubes, polyethylene insulation tube, flexible tube, 2 anti-stress balls, 2 balls Kong, stone from the beach of Castelejo.
![Gaspromanoide (2017) - /detail/](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/8-gaspromanoid_detail.jpg?itok=NBNJ1fZf)
![Baby Gas (2017)
Cristal ball, gas burner, ice bucket holder.](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/7-baby_gas.jpg?itok=Cd9bLfJv)
Cristal ball, gas burner, ice bucket holder.
![Instalation View at Balcony [1]
Photo: João Neves
[1] https://balcony.pt/](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/9-instalation_view_4r.jpg?itok=YwyrvnGi)
Photo: João Neves
![Baby Gas reaching puberty Turquase (2018)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 100x65cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/23-baby_gas_a_entrar_na_puberdade_azul-turquesa.jpg?itok=JYfs9J5u)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 100x65cm
![Instalation View at Balcony [1]
Photo: João Neves
[1] https://balcony.pt/](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/10-instalation_view_5_0.jpg?itok=h8YDSMAi)
Photo: João Neves
![Stairs (Synthetic Pumice Stone) (2018) - video still
Stop Motion animation with 48 frames, Video Pal, Colour, w/o sound.](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/16-escadas.jpg?itok=wn2VR8_j)
Stop Motion animation with 48 frames, Video Pal, Colour, w/o sound.
![Daisy (2018) / Milky Way (2018) / Tangerine (2018)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 25x17cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/11-instalation_view_6.jpg?itok=Fx3YUQYa)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 25x17cm
![Sand Mold (2018)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 35x25cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/17-molde_de_areia.jpg?itok=xKZ3GYsP)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 35x25cm
![Natural Pumice Stone (2018)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 35x25cm](http://nikolainekh.com/sites/default/files/styles/slide/public/12-pedra-pomes_natural.jpg?itok=mkqyg1x6)
Inject print on semi-gloss paper; bonded on 3mm Dibond - 35x25cm