One Enormous Drawing

Flávio Gonçalves

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One enormous drawing is already a promise, a desire we release with persistence and effort.
In this exhibition, Guilherme Dable proposes that we think about the ambiguities in every desire, in what he hands to us, but also deprives us of; the incapacity of uniting in a whole something that originates from cuts and division.
One enormous drawing, a body of water on one side and the sky with clouds on the other; two extensive drawings of gestures and colors surrounding the space in the room and placing us in the center, wrapped in this division.
The line in the horizon, the imaginary limit that separates the sky from the land, is also the image of the search and the unreachable, which reflects the dimension of what we look for in the world and cannot lose. To a large extent, drawing is desiring, because in a drawing our wishes are released, and new ones are created – the line is more a search than a separation. 
We are in the center of this installation, and this seems to give form to what separates an image from another, transporting the evidence of this emptiness to our own body. Somehow it always transports us.
‘Call me Ishmael’ is the title of the piece, which evokes the memory of the character’s adventure between the sky and the sea, his search for himself again in the journey and the unknown. Treat me as one, the union of all possible distances.

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