Antoine Junior Alves - Pondus Aliorum

Pondus Aliorum — the weight of others — explores detachment as patient learning, a gradual shedding, impossible to rush.
The canvas is built in the mass of accumulated expectations, in the refusal to bear what belongs to others. Here, creation becomes a space of emancipation, a place where consciousness frees itself from imposed burdens and allows itself to regain its own breath.
​The colors collide, overlap and intertwine without ever yielding to ease. The dark purples and dense burgundies establish gravity and the oppression of the load, yellows appear as flashes of lucidity, while greens and turquoises instill breath, distance, renewal. Each shade participates in a vivid, tense, reparative plastic debate.
​The material is strong, textured, deliberately worked with a knife. It bears the marks of tension, successive strata, burdens laid down then traversed. Nothing is camouflaged. Everything accumulates. The canvas embraces the heaviness of the journey as a passage, affirming that learning to free oneself from the weight of others takes time and consistency.
​Pondus Aliorum celebrates the reclaiming of oneself.
It asserts the right to lay down unnecessary burdens, to protect oneself without guilt, to exist without becoming heavy.
This work is a silent affirmation: that of a mind on a path, which finally chooses its own lightness. One gesture at a time.
It takes time to learn not to carry the weight of others…

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