Death in its inexorable force, always permeated the poetic research of Matheus Pires in visual arts. The Perception of his finitude made it possible for him to savor more carefully the ephemeral moments that go by the atrocious succession, in the transitory wake of life. On the other hand, he was surrounded by the experience of the Sublime, in the admiration of its cathartic force, that could in his possibility exposes us to a painful alterity in the purgation of sentiments, which leads us to the recognition of our human condition, our incompleteness and fragility but which, as Edmund Burke exhorts us, also leads to delight.
Something that the artist found ample correspondence in the thought of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger in Sein und Zeit (Being and Time)...
