A system of ropes and pulleys keeps suspended 7 large sheets of printed PVC and an air compressor. The rope holding the sheets and the compressor is connected to a suction cup placed on a side wall. The operation of the suction cup is guaranteed and kept constant by the same compressor connected through a pipe.
The compressor remains on standby until the suction cup begins to lose adhesion, at which point the compressor reactivates automatically, setting the vacuum level to the required value.

We wish first invite visitors to pay an accurate attention - allowing themselves to feel uprooted – on the existence and, ultimately, on the meaning, of words. The poetic value of writing is both scaled to make the readers feel uncomfortable and hindered by the absence of translation from Portuguese.
The compressor-maestro brings together the whole exhibition as a device that bridges performativity and movement. Mechanical noise from the machine deconstructs any sort of lyricism and utopia, coexisting with silence and perception of absence. Assisted breathing for forgotten messages. 
This project comes to life through a symbiosis between the emptiness of human feelings, expressed in a direct and quasi-abstract poetic way and the restrictive nature of the orchestral machine, halfway between existential prudishness and mechanical logic.