Threshold
2025
Rock, arrow
79 x 59 x 33 cm
All images © Fábio Colaço
2025
Rock, arrow
79 x 59 x 33 cm
All images © Fábio Colaço
The work stages a confrontation between solidity
and force, permanence and disruption. The work consists of a stone pierced by
arrows, an image that destabilizes the natural associations of stone as
immovable, impermeable, and eternal. By allowing the arrows to penetrate what
seems unyielding, the piece becomes a metaphor for breaking barriers,
surpassing limits, and reaching beyond the impenetrable. The stone symbolizes
ideological rigidity and entrenched systems, while the arrows embody the
impulse to resist, question, and challenge dominant currents of thought.
“Threshold” is both violent and liberating: an act of wounding that
simultaneously opens space for transformation. Threshold asserts that even what
appears untouchable can be changed, and that no wall of certainty is impervious
to resistance, critique, and the act of crossing into new possibilities.