The Reminder of the Winds Marco Godinho

The Reminder of the Winds – Le rappel des vents is a new solo exhibition by Portuguese-Luxembourgish artist Marco Godinho, bringing together a series of recent sculptures and installations.

Conceived as a poetic exhibition, it explores the invisible yet essential flows that traverse our lives: winds, breaths, atmospheres—those shifting presences that connect bodies, spaces, and temporalities.

The project unfolds as a temporary shelter, a second home suspended in time, subtly linking The Infinite House—the artist’s own house, situated by a river at the border between Luxembourg and Germany—to the Parisian gallery. At the heart of this weaving: the street itself, transformed into a river-world, a geo-graphic and poetic threshold between the two exhibition spaces. A line of passage through which memories, gestures, and the intensities of the world—present and future—circulate.

From the very entrance, the gallery's street number, 44, is replaced by the number 8 from the artist’s house. Placed horizontally in both locations, this 8 becomes the symbol of infinity: a subtle shift that opens up a reflection on dwelling, belonging, and the invisible forces that link things, places, and distances.

The exhibition extends A Permanent Wind Within Us (Un vent permanent à l’intérieur de nous, Les Tanneries, 2023–2024), where the wind, the river, and surrounding natural elements played a central role. Here again, the works evoke notions of porosity and passage—between interior and exterior, public and private space, individual and collective dimensions. Every component of the exhibition—whether the space itself, the gallery team, the street, the rhythm of the days, the gestures activated in The Infinite House or arriving from elsewhere—contributes to what philosopher Thierry Davila calls “a poetry of the atmospheric” and “a respiratory experience.”

The Reminder of the Winds invites us to inhabit the world differently: through attention, movement, and by listening to the winds outside and the breaths within.