Triptych, concrete, paper, chains and chinese ink 32 x 32 x 1.5 cm each, 2020
The Three Wise Monkeys are a Japanese pictorial maxim, embodying the proverbial principle “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil“. Whereas in the west they’re seem as cynical but, in its original sense, the monkeys performed a breaking of the “chain evil” he who sees or hear evil says no evil.
The monkeys here are definitely the western evils ones, the three extreme right politicians that, besides their common political affiliation, also share cynicism and lies spreading as tactics: a deep contempt for language based not on silence, but on its ethical dilution and the enjoyment with it associated .
matheus rocha pitta 