The trail we did was way too crazy to think about again.

On our way we believed and disbelieved a lot of times we were going to get there. We came down such a long way that the way back was on the list “problems of the future”.

We actually did arrive, but in another waterfall, very close to a road with cars… actually it was the most dangerous waterfall in the area. Known to tourists as the Tahiti Waterfall, it served as the backdrop for a 1985 Tahiti shower gel commercial.

It was sunny, the air was hot, the cold water was falling into the rocks and she climbed the rocks against the water flow. She hurt herself. Those wet rocks are just like knives — we heard later. Her knee was bleeding but the bleeding was way too much for the little cut we could see.

On the way back to the camp, we stopped at a little green area with some tables to enjoy the last rays of the sun. We were admiring the view of the mountains. The sun was lighting up the green fields, her eyes, her itchy skin, her silver ring, and the blood on her knee, which was now dried. We were feeling the last turns we did before we got here. The adventures of the day finished. The night starts.

The sky, the fire, the earth, the sun, the planets, the water, the air, and You.

Excerpt of AMOR, Filipa da Rocha Nunes,
March 2025

Colher, faca e garfos, Löffel, Messer und Gabeln, Spoon, knife, and forks One by Thomas Spallek with artwork by Joana Hintze and texts by Filipa da Rocha Nunes

Colher, faca e garfos, Löffel, Messer und Gabeln, Spoon, knife, and forks One by Thomas Spallek with artwork by Joana Hintze and texts by Filipa da Rocha Nunes

One room.
One work.
One is the name of a free exhibition concept at Caprii, whose displays are reduced to a single work. By focussing on the individual piece, a particularly intimate moment is created between the work and the viewer.

In this series Caprii asks people from the world of art for the One? In this edition of One we invited Thomas Spallek. In a collaborative interpretation of the theme created One out of three, with Joana Hintze and Filipa da Rocha Nunes. The exhibition is accompanied by a booklet with a poem and text by Filipa da Rocha Nunes, in German, Portugues and English.

Image: Copyright the artist; Lehmann, Porto; Caprii by Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf; Photo Tino Kukulies
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