João Freitas – Hold the line

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The nature of time is one of the great mysteries of reality. On one hand, time is a puzzling enigma that has eluded all of humanity’s attempts at total comprehension. On the other hand, time is the most familiar thing in the world. And while the subject has been studied for thousands of years, there remains no scientific consensus as to what time really is. Our human experience is that time is something which flows from the past to the future, and we as subjects, are carried along its progressive linear current. And yet, our physical models of time argue that the universe is one big block in which all moments past, present and future, exist somewhere permanently along the block’s temporal dimension. What’s more, the second law of thermodynamics, entropy and the “arrow of time” tell us that time, as we experience it at the human level, does not exist as such in the microphysical world: were we able to witness reality at that level, the difference between the past and the future would vanish.

João Freitas (b. 1989) is a Luso-Luxembourgish visual artist based in Brussels. He received his Master's degree in Drawing from ENSAV La Cambre in Brussels in 2014. Freitas has collaborated with the Fuoricampo gallery in Italy for the past ten years. Past solo exhibitions include "Twofold" in 2023 at the Museo del Santa Maria della Scala in Siena, "Unshielded" in 2022 at La Patinoire Royale Bach gallery in Brussels, and "Into the Open" in 2020 at the Centre d'art Dominique Lang in Dudelange (LU). His work has also been shown in group exhibitions at venues such as TAMAT – Museum of Tapestry and Textile Arts, Tournai (BE); Haus des Papiers, Berlin (DE); CENTRALE for contemporary art, Brussels (BE); Laboratorium – Institut für aktuelle Kunst, Saarlouis (DE); LIAR – Luxembourg Institute for Artistic Research, New York (US); Rotondes, Luxembourg (LU); Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (BE); Centre Wallonie-Bruxelles, Paris (FR); and the Italian Cultural Institute, Brussels (BE).Freitas is scheduled to participate in an upcoming residency at RAVI in Liège in early 2027.

LD Deutsch is a writer and lecture based in Los Angeles, California. Her work focuses on time, consciousness, technology, mythology and the fall of the materialist paradigm. Her first book, Time, Myth and Matter: Essays on the Natures and Narratives of Reality, was published in May 2025 by Sacred Bones Books.

The show is realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Culture of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg