Helio Eudoro Rodriguez Junior

Manto N°5 – BATTLE AGAINST DESTINY - Moirai’s Fate Armour

Installation:Mixed-media textiles sculpture with assorted attached elements – 180x90x240cm. Video 10’05 - Lake Ontario. Audio 46’28 – Ode Marítima, Fernando Pessoa

“The Manto N°5  is a sumptuous ceremonial, symbolic, ritualistic, and formal garment that represents body in presentation on the day of judgment before God. The elements attached represent the multiplicity of signs and roles, genders and sexualities. The queered cover is glamorous but made up of scraps. Gauze and glory, bright and excessive, accumulation and overlapping of senses.The title - BATTLE AGAINST DESTINY - Moirai’s Fate Armour , is related to the Greek Mythology . THE MOIRAI were the three goddesses of fate who personified the inescapable destiny of man. They assigned to every person fate or share in the scheme of things. The sisters were Klotho, "the Spinner," who spun the thread of life, Lakhesis , "the Apportioner of Lots", who measured it, and Atropos , "She who cannot be turned," who cut it short. Zeus Moiragetes, the god of fate, was their leader. The attempt is battle to scape of fate with the armour. The Installation setting is composed with the Manto in the centre, and from the head, I’m reciting the Fernando Pessoa poem Ode Maritima complete, in 46 minutes . In the background, the video of the Lake Ontario in a fog day, as if heaven and earth merged into a single fluid substance. ”