«Rui Macedo's recent work reveals a suggestive reflection on the relationship between the exhibition space and the works displayed within it. For the artist, exhibition spaces, and in some cases museums, have become an object of aesthetic speculation. It is not simply a matter of transgressing the implicit models of representation in all kinds of expository discourses, but something much more interesting: revealing the limits and breaches that the apparent neutrality of the exhibition space presents.

What Rui Macedo reveals in his exhibitions are different aspects of his particular concept of art: basically, that of giving shape to a universe, however tiny, as a microcosm, ordered according to the rules he himself establishes. The possibility of reflecting a broader idea is something that the artist has courageously addressed in other exhibitions, such as the one entitled The Impossible Totality, first shown at the Valencia Institute of Modern Art. We know only too well that this expression is categorically true; the last attempt at integration was made by the figures of the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century, who were able to unite the knowledge of different aspects of the world within a single prism.»

Javier Barón Thaidigsmann, 2013