Works

Sensitive Matter — Sculptural Research 2025–2026

This section gathers selected sculptural works from Sensitive Matter, Otávio Motta’s ongoing research developed between 2025 and 2026.

The works investigate matter as a living field, crossed by energy, silence, weight, suspension, and spiritual force. Wood, brass, stone, steel, and light cease to be inert elements and begin to operate as sensitive presences, revealing tensions between the visible and the invisible, the raw and the sacred, and form and what exceeds it.

Matéria que Sente (2025)

Pele Fina

Tall dark sculpture with many circular holes of varying sizes, revealing warm golden light from within.

Transfixação (2025)

Emerging within the Sensitive Matter — Third Movement, Transfixação reveals a vertical body perforated by dozens of circular openings of different diameters, each suggesting an inner force pushing outward. The golden interior glows subtly through the dark exterior, evoking a silent pressure, an inward resonance trying to break through matter. The work embodies a state of spiritual emergence — a moment when the internal becomes perceptible, but not yet fully unveiled.

Circular black ring standing vertically beside a golden ring on the floor, with a dark sphere resting between them.

Ressonância (2025)

Part of the Sensitive Matter — Third Movement, Ressonância explores the vibration between bodies, forces, and gravitational loops. Two torus-like rings — one blackened, one golden — orbit a dense spherical core, creating a suspended geometry of attraction. The work visualizes the invisible field between matter and spirit: a pulse, a frequency, a quiet expansion. It is not motion, but the awareness of the field that precedes motion.

Long blackened wooden block with a carved concave depression holding a golden sphere.

Limite do Imanente (2025)

Within the Sensitive Matter — Third Movement, Limite do Imanente investigates the boundary where presence becomes weight. A heavy, charred wooden block contains a hollow carved depression holding a suspended golden sphere. The work materializes gravitational tension — the moment when the sacred presses into matter, creating depth, curvature, and permanence. It is the imprint of divine proximity, a threshold between the visible and the interior.

Two large curved brass panels facing each other with a dark sphere suspended between them against a brown background.

Campo de Imanência (2025–2026)

Emerging within the Sensitive Matter — Third Movement, Campo de Imanência marks one of the most distilled formal and spiritual syntheses in Otávio Motta’s research. Two tall curved brass sheets stand in symmetrical opposition, while a dense aged-iron sphere is held in equilibrium between them. The sculpture embodies the consciousness of the almost — the instant when forces align and the world expands in silence.