The Portal

(Brazilië, 1981)

The portal (2018)

Spuitbus op polyester

The center of The portal is a black hole, which offers viewers access to Rafael’s personal world. All around it, he painted his characteristic ‘in motion words’ as a unified body of shapes and textures.

“I write Sliks, but sometimes I write different names or inverse names. For me, what’s very important is that it’s not legible. It should be illegible, because I like texture.” / Rafael Sliks