Kissing The Sun, Touching The Moon, Mixing The Waters

Written By Water, Luxembourg Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia

Isolation Days (March 16 - Mai 10, 2020) #1-56

Le processus créatif est l'hospitalité de l'œuvre. Le processus créatif est l'hospitalité de l'œuvre.

33 confessions d’artiste

Written by Water – Publication

Mr Godinho (Bio)
Keong-A Song

Forever Immigrant – Postcards

L’écriture est un geste d’incertitude. L’écriture est un geste d’incertitude. L’écriture est un geste d’incertitude.

Le studio des écritures #12

Left to Their Own Fate (Odyssey)

Mappa Mundi – Contemporary Cartographies

His hand takes part in the language. He refers to the fluidity of writing, an ink that is transparent yet full of stories.

Dossier Gestes d’écriture – Press

Left to Their Own Fate (Odyssey) – Photographs

Oblivion (Colour)

Remember What Is Missing (The Infinite House)

Cycle lunaire (1–30 août, 2019) #1–30

The Unknown in Suspense (Crystal Moon Blocks)

In the Hollow of Your Hands

Navigation Instrument (South)

Miracles Are Hidden Secrets #1–2

Miracles Are Hidden Secrets – Photographs

As Close as Possible to the Sun

In Transit

Wandering With the Horizon at Your Fingertips

Sequence of a Forgotten Moment

Kissing the Sun, Touching the Moon, Mixing the Waters

See Another Sea – Publication

This territory of possibilities, where erasure leads to the greatest openness, where imperceptibility meets immensity,

Hoping for possibilities, at every instant
Christophe Gallois

The sea does not write, at least visibly it gives us no sign to read, no text to decode, no story to peruse or consult.

Reading what was never written
Thierry Davila

Between Two Waves

Written by Water – Library

A thunderstorm. Night. Water runs down the walls, onto the windowsills, it runs from the roofs, down the façades

The Watery Way
Sally Bonn

Written by Water – Film series

Written by Water – Photographic series

Left to Their Own Fate (Odyssey) – Film

Left to Their Own Fate (Odyssey) – Action

A Permanent Sea Inside Us

A miniature world (...) lying in the palm of an outstretched hand, carefully rolled up, plucked from a transparent tube.

In Praise of Vagabond Energy
Hélène Guenin

A Permanent Sea Inside Us (Blind Reading)

Reading and travelling. These two acts may well proceed from the same way of moving, of being able to

Reader-Traveller
Léa Bismuth

Oblivion (Water)

Oblivion (Colour)

Marco Godinho’s installations have a direct, simple appeal that expresses itself independent of their content’s complexity.

Inventing the Language of a Country Without Exile
Béatrice Josse

See Another Sea

And if our life were nothing but a long journey? A sort of peregrination “in endless search of an elsewhere, a place to briefly

Sharing Intensities
Paul di Felice

Le monde nomade de Mr Godinho
Keong-A Song

Disappear Disappear Again

Un feu permanent à l'intérieur de nous

Notes sur cette terre qui respire le feu (Ascension des pentes)

Notes sur cette terre qui respire le feu (Messages à l’autre)

Notes sur cette terre qui respire le feu (Geste d’offrande)

Notes sur cette terre qui respire le feu (Exercice de méditation)

Untitled (Transparent Flags)

L’Horizon retrouvé

Biennale de Lyon 2017 – Mondes flottants

Forever Immigrant

"It is no longer we who cross the land, the border, the sea; they are the ones who cross us"

« Ce n’est plus nous qui traversons la terre, la frontière, la mer ; ce sont elles qui nous traversent »
Interview by Sally Bonn

dust to dust (...)

Forever Immigrant (Tattoo)

Lunar Cycle (April 1-29, 2018) #1-29

Every Day a Poem Disappears Into the Universe

The Unknown in Suspense (Crystal Moon Blocks)

The Unknown in Suspense (Video)

Remember What Is Missing (Taipei Air Force Base) – Film

Remember what is missing (Taipei Air Force Base) – Photographs

Written by Water

« Je crois que ma patrie... mon capital c’est d’être apatride. C’est ce qui me pousse à continuer. C’est ce qui fait que dès que je suis quelque part, je suis très curieux, je deviens tout de suite un viennois, un français, un allemand. J’ai passé un an en Amérique, et j’ai tout de suite lu des livres en anglais. Je n’ai pas vraiment de patrie. »

The Memory of the stateless ghosts
Caroline Cros

The Memory Of The Stateless Ghosts

A Permanent Wind Inside Us

A Permanent Wind Inside Us / Lettre-océan

Odyssey (suspended)

A Permanent Wind Inside Us

Europa/Aporie

Eternal Flame

In migration

Notes sur cette terre qui respire le feu

Poèmes et autres seuils

Poèmes et autres seuils

Universal Declaration # 1–24

Remember What Is Missing

Tigers in Flip-Flops

Home is no longer warm

A slight change in direction

I misteri delle origini della vita

The Mediterranean Sea as a Suspended Territory

Going South Is Not the Same as Going North /
Going North Is Not the Same as Going South, 2016–2017

Going South Is Not the Same as Going North /
Going North Is Not the Same as Going South, 2016

Mondes nomades

Left to Their Own Fate (Os Lusíadas)

but even if I cannot see the sun

Still a Blind Light in an Endless Night

Every Day a Revolution

Joseph Beuys | Marco Godinho

BlackBox – Marco Godinho

Mondes Nomades

Disappearance

Summer Dreams (Hidden) # 1-12

Ecosystem

Tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo

Remember What Is Missing

The End of Winter

ET (Le dernier dialogue possible) / ST (The last possible dialogue)

Et (Le dernier dialogue possible) – Film

The Last Sentence of the Book

Black Ocean

Tentative d'une carte pour l'oubli

Remember (what is missing)

Time to (...)

Endless Time Searching

Invisible More Visible More Invisible #3

Invisible More Visible More Invisible #2

(...) is not real

Invisible More Visible More Invisible #3

The Infinite House (House Number)

History Revisited (Memory Hole)

History Revisited (Loose Associations)

Fortune Balance

Blind Memory (The Eyes of the Tiger)

Moment of Intensity

Something Happens

Invisible More Visible More Invisible

Autre chose

Sideline Situation

Invisible More Visible More Invisible #2

In girum imus nocte et consumimu igni

Endless Time Searching #3

Something White

A Moment Out Of This Time

Navigation Instrument (North)

Home Dislocation

A Moment Out of This Time

Departure (Destiny of rupture)

Survival Act

Timeless

Invisible More Visible More Invisible #1

Eckige Schnecke

Related Stories #2

Invisible More Visible More Invisible #1

Le Monde nomade #2

Spiral Nations

The Evanescence of Things

Le Monde 2009 #1–12

Back Into The Black

Nous

In Memory of Human Amnesia

Endless Time Searching #6

À l'infini

Du temps perdu à la recherche du temps #1

ailleurs ailleurs ailleurs

White Map

Shoes for Experienced Walkers

Endless Time Searching # 4

Endless Time Searching #2

Transparent Wall

Portugal Agora – À propos des lieux d’origine & Aide-mémoire, système appui idées

Rythme vital (7 propositions de déambulation quotidienne)

The Saved Shoes #2

Untitled (Welcome Stranger)

L’Horizon retrouvé

GR #1-4

All Around

At This Moment I Have Time / I Have Time At This Moment

Mental Type

Un temps au présent #1

Le Monde nomade #1

Cabo da Roca

Forever Immigrant

2012
Works

Forever Immigrant, 2012–
Endorsing ink on wall
Dimensions variable

For this work, a rubber stamp is used to repeatedly print the words “Forever Immigrant” more or less densely on a wall, creating a sort of monumental cloud. Over the years, the artist has reactivated the project numerous times, working either alone or with community groups in institutional and urban spaces around the world. The project is a reflection on immigration and permanent uncertainty: the “forever immigrant” belongs to no territory.

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    Installation views, 14th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France, 2017

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    Installation view, Frac Franche – Comté, Besançon, France, 2015–2016

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    Installation views, Lampedusa, Italy, 2015

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    Installation views, Palermo, Italy, 2015

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    Installation view, 49 Nord 6 Est–Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, 2015

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    Installation view, MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2017

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    Installation view, Museo Universitario Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, 2013

Installation views, 14th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France, 2017

Installation view, Frac Franche – Comté, Besançon, France, 2015–2016

Installation views, Lampedusa, Italy, 2015

Installation views, Palermo, Italy, 2015

Installation view, 49 Nord 6 Est–Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, 2015

Installation view, MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2017

Installation view, Museo Universitario Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, 2013

Installation views, 14th Lyon Biennial, Lyon, France, 2017

Installation view, Frac Franche – Comté, Besançon, France, 2015–2016

Installation views, Lampedusa, Italy, 2015

Installation views, Palermo, Italy, 2015

Installation view, 49 Nord 6 Est–Frac Lorraine, Metz, France, 2015

Installation view, MAC VAL – Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2017

Installation view, Museo Universitario Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia, 2013