DISTANT ROOMS ∙ PEDRO COSTA & RUI CHAFES

DISTANT ROOMS • PEDRO COSTA & RUI CHAFES • 2016 ILMIN MUSEUM OF ART 136 pgs • Table of Contents: Preface — Looking in the Darkness / Taeryung Kim; Greetings— Pedro Costa, Rui Chafes; Distant Rooms / Antonio Quinteiro Nobre; Distant Rooms and The Perspective of Darkness (or Baroque) / Yung Bin Kwak; Embracing Your Shadow / Yoo Un-Seong; Body Creates Darkness, Darkness Creates Sculpture / Kim Jung Hyun • Artist Talk 25Th 2016 interviewed by Youngjune Ham • Artist Biography • List of Works • Translation: Eunah Park • Photography: NATHING STUDIO • Graphic Design: Table Union • Distant Rooms” at the Ilmin Museum is a two-person exhibition by filmmaker Pedro Costa (b. 1958, Portugal) and artist Rui Chafes (b. 1966, Portugal). Since 2005, Costa and Chafes have come together on occasions to present shows as an artistic duo. Their aesthetic experiments attempt to visualise the unseen and unknown such as energy, sound, shadows, and have been the subject of exhibitions at museums worldwide. “Distant Rooms” brings together Costa and Chafes for the first time in four years and showcases approximately 20 works. Using their respective mediums of film and sculpture, the two artists explore the idea of memory • PVP 40€ • Linha de Sombra • www.linhadesombra.com • Cinemateca Portuguesa ■

“I am sure that each person will have different feelings. Just try to trust your eyes. It’s a question of trust.”

Rui Chafes

“The person, who invited me to exhibit in the different space, where is outside of a theater for the first time was Catherine David. She has works with some filmmakers, for example, Chantal Akerman and Abbas Kiarostami. After she saw my film called IN VANDA’S ROOM, she knew that I had a lot of shorts as a material. So she asked me that I would search some short among my materials for a exhibition.”

Pedro Costa