English version | Kháos

31 Mar 2021
By Vogue Portugal

Kháos was the first god to emerge in Greek mythology, says Hesiod in his poem Theogony (Genealogy of the Gods). One that has no anthropomorphic form and that is a symbol of the emptiness that precedes the creation of the remaining deities.

Kháos was the first god to emerge in Greek mythology, says Hesiod in his poem Theogony (Genealogy of the Gods). One that has no anthropomorphic form and that is a symbol of the emptiness that precedes the creation of the remaining deities.

It's from this Kháos - or chaos? - that something new appears; it is from this kind of disorder that order is born, in a metaphorical entropy that transgresses and breaks up with the status quo as a fundamental step for evolution. And it is in this capacity to create something from nothing that one can speak of antifragility, a concept introduced by the author Nassim Taleb, that is the capacity to benefit or be (re)born from fragility: the inexistence seems fragile, but it is the blank canvas that gives birth to existence. The emptiness seems weak, but it is the force that makes everything - or the whole - grow. The saturation point looks like the end but it is actually the beginning for the transgression to happen; for rules, standards, conditions to be broken; and the future, novelty, innovation to be created. You just needs someone that from here - chaos, fragility, emptiness, disorder - makes a revolution in order to create evolution. Photography by Ricardo Santos. Styling by Larissa Marinho.

*Translated from the original on Vogue Portugal's The Forbidden Issue, published april 2021.Full article and credits on the print issue.

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