PT ENG Descrição da Obra Artwork Description Durante a minha residência, passei várias semanas à procura de argila natural na região, vagando sozinha pela natureza. Encontrei diferentes tipos de terra e, após processá-la para separar o material orgânico e as pedras das partículas de argila, misturei o pó de argila com água para avaliar a…
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Refugees for non-human life — Marthin Rozo
PT ENG Descrição da Obra Artwork Description Refugees for non-human life Ao conceber a criação artística de uma perspetiva não humana, assumindo o Antropoceno como a era geológica atual, estes objetos são algo que se encontra entre a escultura e um “Hotel para Insetos”. O “Hotel para Insetos” é uma estrutura criada para proteger certos…
Ser todo aos pedaços. Pedaços que ficam sem traço, e que existem sem embaraço — Nuno Sousa & Sofia Mordido Aires
PT ENG Descrição da Obra Artwork Description Ser todo e aos pedaços. Pedaços que ficam sem traço, e que existem sem embaraço. Um todo sem a noção de partes, uma anulação de fases, de pontos e impasses que existiram por toda a parte sem serem aceites neste pedaço. Ser e só ver bocados, mas existir…
The Post-Babel Tower — Brenno Kaschner Russo
PT ENG Descrição da Obra Artwork Description The Post-Babel Tower (A Torre Pós-Babel) inverte a Torre de Babel canónica — uma história bíblica de confusão linguística e fragmentação cultural —, propondo, em vez disso, um laboratório para a consciência, a reparação e a reconexão. A obra convida os espectadores a entrar numa espiral temporal e…
Eco-System: life, cork, light and water — Marta de Menezes, André Araújo, Anna Isaak-Ross, Catarina Portugal, Diana Mordido Aires, Nuno Sousa & Sally Santiago
Artwork Description ENG// Eco-System: life, cork, light and water This installation is a commentary and interpretation of the Alentejo ecosystem, particularly that of the cork oak. It intertwines virgin cork and processed products, creating a sensory encounter. Capsules reveal miniatures with branches, lichens and mosses in harmony. 3D sculptures show the complexity of the ecosystem….
Terroir — Amy Pilling
Artwork Description ENG// Terroir During quiet walks around São Luís, I enjoyed the sensory experience unfolding around me: the calls of birds, the scent of foliage and wet soil, the texture of cork bark and leaves, and other perceptions native to my own way of sensing the world. Yet I found myself wondering what I…
Projeto Parietaria — Dalila Honorato
Artwork Description ENG// Project Parietaria engages with the legacy of art in a suitcase [Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise(1948), Dieter Roth’s Staple Cheese(A Race)(1970), Mona Hatoum’s Traffic(2002), etc.] repurposing a vintage Lady Baltimore makeup suitcase into an unconventional picnic basket filled with culinary preparations of an edible yet allergenic weed. Much like Joseph Cornell’s assemblage art, which…
Vessel #1 — Jeffu Warmouth
Artwork Description ENG// The eucalyptus leaves collected have become self-referenced text containers and are arranged as longitudinal slices of a larger form. The poetic texts praise the function and concepts of containers in biology, art and culture. PT// As folhas de eucalipto apanhadas tornaram-se contentores de texto autorreferenciados e são organizadas como fatias longitudinais de…
Testing our Patience (a Multispecies Listening Device) — Louise Mackenzie
Artwork Description ENG// Testing our Patience (a Multispecies Listening Device) Cork wood, kombucha, copper wire, speakers, microphones, amplifiers and cables. Whilst on residency in Sao Luis, I was reflecting on how to make a sculpture that allowed people to sit and listen – closely and carefully – to the sounds around them in these beautiful…
Borderless Bacteria, Colonialist Cash — Ken Rinaldo
Artwork Description ENG// Scientists have identified up to 3000 types of bacteria on dollar bills from just one Manhattan bank. Most of the bacteria found were skin, mouth and vagina microbes according to a study conducted by New York University Center for Genomics & Systems Biology. Bacterial cultures, fungi, and viruses finding transport on monetary…
CODEX | Phase I: Library of transcriptions and speculative translations in bark beetles — Eileen Ryan
Artwork Description ENG// This project will include several phases that focus on the transcription and interpretation of beetle galleries (unique patterns beetles make underneath the bark of trees) into a pictorial language. My hypothesis is that I will uncover patterns that will lead me closer to a potential awareness of inter-species communication. The speculative translations…
Folded Light: Study N.1 — Rudolfo Quintas
Artwork Description ENG// A visual study of animated circles projected onto a bending sheet of paper, where light follows the geometry of deformation. This piece is an outcome of a residency by Rudolfo Quintas. He was investigating how the perception of our body is culturally changing through medical information. He explored the idea of a…