Artist Lucas Simões presents the exhibition You text nothing like you look at the Mário de Andrade Library , where he explores circuits and impulses mirrored between sculpture and literature, as if in an urgent formal materialization of a poetic outburst. The creative process that Simões developed for this series, which began in 2018, starts from literary excerpts that inspire his sculptural works. Each completed piece then receives a second title, creating a cyclical dialogue between text and object.

The exhibition is part of the celebrations of the centenary of surrealism by the Mário de Andrade Library. The linguistic game between sculpture and poetry played by Simões is similar to cadavre exquis , a collective writing game invented at the height of French surrealism in 1925. Played collectively, its fundamental mechanism is based on automatic, accidental writing that abandons rational control in an attempt to reveal a broader understanding of the subjective condition of each participant.

Also in YTNLYL, the games of unpredictability operate, as in the disobedience of matter, despite the occasional extreme attempt on the part of the sculptor and the writer to guide it in a certain way.

In this way, Simões develops dynamics of shuffling to create a semantic context where he superimposes excerpts not only in literature, but in sculpture itself, as if each material spoke a language and related to one another – in a coherent or contrasting way. This sculptural experiment by Simões reiterates, based on the sometimes chaotic, psychoanalytic and temperamental friction between the two expressions, the dissolutions in contemporaneity of their logical, formal and epistemological limits and orders, both in language and in sculpture.