Ore

Another education by stone: in the backlands (from the inside out, and pre-didactic). In the backlands the stone does not give lessons, and if it gave them, nothing would be taught; there the stone is not something you learn but is a stone from birth, penetrating the soul.

Excerpt from “Educação pela pedra” (Education by Stone), João Cabral de Melo Neto, 1966. Translated by Richard Zenith.
In: Melo Neto, J. C. Education by Stone: Selected Poems. New York: Archipelago Books, 2005.

Ore emerges from a praxis of exchange. Originated with an invitation from Van Den Weghe stone atelier, to Paloma Bosquê, whose research into geological time and material memory anchors this collaboration. Bosquê brought in Roberto Freitas, a Brazilian artist based in Brussels, to develop work combining their complementary practices. Through these encounters, matter becomes a site of dialogue. The works turn toward the Earth as living presence, attentive to its deep time, its pressures, and its vibrations. The exhibition approaches Earth’s matter as an archive where duration is compressed, fractured, and remains active, aiming to make visible its gaps, its metamorphoses, and long-term processes.