The Horizons series are projects that deal with the idea of horizon as a conceptual line determining in our perception of the landscape. The virtuality of sky and the materiality of the earth are in contact throughout this line. Horizons are constructions that emerge from the ground or create slopes in the terrain, contrasting luminous images of sky to a grass plane. They were designed to be installed in parks, in large grassy areas, where the public can walk and view the surroundings from different points of view.

Horizons for Vera is a work of this series built on human scale, at the III Mercosul Biennial, on the banks of the Guaíba River.



“In Horizons we watch the ground breaking up. The crust that we deemed rigid, the first layer of a dense world, is a film that hides an underground sky. The landscape is therefore a fine plane that separates the sky from the sky. According to this work, we walk along suspended, compromised by the emptiness. All things considered, this situation is no different to when we stand encircled by the landscape, reduced to a vertical line through which all our surroundings flow.” (Agnaldo Farias)

“Because of the lack of a visible horizon in the image, a semantic horizon is established and, instead of updating the potentialities of a place, founds its own territory – it conjugates the frozen, ephemeral snapshot of the contingency, incorporating the passage of time as well as the out-of-time established by the photographic act.” (Glória Ferreira)

“Transiting equally between reality and images of reality, Eduardo Coimbra’s works establish an ambiguity between nature and culture, and simulate these states of conjunction or fusion between sky and earth. His Horizons incite (even if only through imagination) an experience of mobility which typically belongs to the horizon, for the images of clouds, intrinsically devoid of a horizon, take on a “geographical” reality, a territory. Thus a game is established between that which indicates indefinite extension and the simulated meeting between the sky and the earth.” (G. F.)