Truth on the Brink of Collapse
2025
Playing cards
210 x 120 x 17 cm (sculpture) / 6 x 130 x 27 cm (plinth)
All images © Fábio Colaço
2025
Playing cards
210 x 120 x 17 cm (sculpture) / 6 x 130 x 27 cm (plinth)
All images © Fábio Colaço
Standing at 210 cm high and 120 cm long, "Truth on the Brink of Collapse" (2025) is a delicate and precarious sculpture composed entirely of playing cards, like a fragment of a wall. Its structure is based on the logic of a house of cards, an unstable and fragile construction on the verge of collapse. The piece serves as a physical and conceptual barrier, momentarily separating two spaces, two times and two opposing forces. The choice of playing cards as a construction material underlines the illusion of solidity. Each card carries signs of chance, deception and strategy, reinforcing the uncertainty that defines the wall's existence. At any moment, a single disturbance could collapse the entire structure, mirroring the precarious nature of visible and invisible power structures.