“A sense of boundlessness and slight unease pervades us when viewing and walking on Eduardo Coimbra’s Silent Steps. This complex installation consists of a vast blanket of coarse white salt crystals spread out across the gallery floor, its surface punctured by a dozen human footprints. Each of the footprints reveals beneath it an illuminated image of a blue sky with cumulus clouds. Standing on the gallery floor beside the salt surface are four stuffed dog legs positioned as if they belong to a disembodied dog in motion. The work as a whole deals with issues such as spatial displacement, the sensory aspects of movement, tactility and immateriality.” (Ziba de Weck Ardalan)

“With varied meanings, Silent Steps call upon the still life in the kinetic operations of their strategies for assembly while voiding the idea of spirituality. A wide symbology which activates the flux of its meanings is added to the diversity of present elements and refers in many ways to a relationship between the sky and the earth, between nature and artifice. In Silent Steps, footsteps and footprints which evoke the earth with which they establish contact unite with the image of clouds in boxes of light.” (Glória Ferreira)