Joanna Latka’s ever attentive and ironic gaze proposes, in this new exhibition, a reflection on certain extreme catastrophes, enduring in our collective memory, that have caused loss of life and heritage, and which should serve as a tool for a global awareness of the role of each of us, individuals, institutions, the State, in this complex world that is ours.

Water and fire in their most intense chromatic expressions, figures in a symbiosis between fable and satire, the Self and the Other, God and the Devil, are elements that may allow us to discover whether we have reached a breaking point with Nature and with ourselves as a species. Is this the Hour of the Devil, a title that refers to the homonymous work by Fernando Pessoa? And, after all, where does this diabolical spirit reign, this Serpent which, in its own defense, claims: “I am the God of Imagination, lost because I do not create.”

Led by the hand of this Devil of Fernando Pessoa, we ask him, “What a thing so dreadful and so beautiful! What is all that down there?”, to which he replies, “That, my lady, is the world!”