In Conversation with Theodore Ereira-Guyer

I send the invitation and stare at my face on the computer screen, practising smiles for when he comes in. The look of a serious journalist, the smile of a relaxed conversation the glance at the notes document without looking like I need a cheat sheet, check.

We could have had this conversation in person, but the mutual rotation between Lisbon and London favours an interview between a café in Chiado and a studio in Tower Bridge. When I went to visit the exhibition, he was at AR.CO, when I came to Lisbon, he was already in London.

Theodore Ereira-Guyer has his first solo exhibition, Thicket, with Elizabeth Xi Bauer Gallery. From an English mother and Portuguese father, we exchange experiences between the two cities when I let him into my meeting room.

Mariana Baião Santos: Tell me about the title of the exhibition, what’s a Thicket for you?

Theodore Ereira-Guyer: I think a lot of the time I’ve been making work I’ve been interested in removing the horizon line, the Western aspect of the singular perspective, the vanishing point. So, I’ve been interested in these kinds of things like the forest, the desert. In the thicket you are fully immersed in the space, there isn’t one singular thing to focus on. 

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