[...] The work that Steegmann created for Coerência consisted of a projection, reflected by carefully placed mirrors, sending light into the most hidden and somber of four rooms _which are interconnected by and aproximately 90-degree angle. In the first room the light beam coming from a slide projector crossed through a second transversal projection, square shaped , which formed a barrier. Visitors oriented themselves, almost blindly, disconcerted, following the trajectory of the light made visible by a smoke machine. Step by step, as one’s eyes were getting used to the dark, one perceived the space more clearly . Reaching the last room after zigzagging the whole gallery, soaked in its typical wet odor, the light illuminated a small stick insect - a thin bug from the amazonian jungle, here entomologically preserved- alight over a golden leaf, which beams into the darkness. [...]

from Pedro del Llano ‘the periphery of the others is our center’, published on Texte zu Kunst 91, september 2013

 

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