“Funes”

For this new edition, Francisco resumes his research on utilities and their implications in objects such as cabinets, drawers and glass cabinets. This time, he seeks to emphasize a particular element within these objects: the drawer.

In his reflection on the drawer, Nuk finds references in the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, especially in "Funes, the Memorioso". In this short story, Borges creates a character capable of remembering all the details of his life, a true storehouse of information. However, Funes is incapable of thinking, creating or planning, because his mind is overloaded with the past.

The relationship between Francisco's work and the character occurs when the artist interprets the drawer as the main means of immortalizing a memory. For him, everything we keep in a drawer is important, because when we open it, these memories can be revived. However, for Nuk, memories are also important forms of creation. Unlike Funes, we can never remember all the details of the past, we only select parts that marked us. Thus, when we revisit a memory, we create new elements and new representations.

Francisco's work invites us to reflect on the act of keeping and forgetting, and how these two processes become catalysts for life.