Full Body Blind Self Portrait

English: I still feel very uncertain about the value of these drawings as art, or whether they are just part of a process or a personal ritual. Yet I decided to resume my practice and try to take a step beyond what I had done before. Since I started this process of self-portraits my focus…

In between

English: For some years I've been procrastinating watching the movie ‘Space in Between’ by Marina Abramovic. I heard a lot of good and bad comments about this movie at the time of its release and I had the opportunity to visit the big exhibition, Marina in Between, promoted by SESC Pompéia in São Paulo. In…

2017/2018 Between Flights #5

English: I can only start this text with a very cliché comment: time always goes faster than I would like. December 2017: another journey involving documents, luggage, airports, homesickness, expectations, and luggage. Another brief visit to São Paulo - Brazil, my city full of contradictions, so loved and hated in the same intensity, that embraces…

Memórias, 2017 + Exhibition: Hybrid (2 Girls Gallery)

English: Memórias (Memory), 2017 - ink, water on paper 20cm x 3,50m  - 3 digital printing on fine art paper 2,10 x 2,97cm With another challenging exhibition at the end of the year, soon after the presentation of the Assessment and after an artistic immersion in Documenta and the Venice Biennale, I faced this intense creative…

2017 Between Flights #4

English: It has been a while since I returned to European lands, but as the avalanche of sensations is a constant I feel that only now, after events and appointments, I am returning to reorganize my routine and thoughts. The period I spent in Brazil was brief and I was able to accomplish what I…

Tradução, 2017 (MA interim show)

English: After a few months of intensive theoretical and written dissertation research, almost as part of my process of rediscovery as an artist, I ventured to produce a new work to integrate our Interim Show. The challenge was not to work with video but to do some new work that was inspired by it. In…

Tutorial #3

English: 19. The conventions of art are altered by works of art. 20. Successful art changes our understanding of the conventions by altering our perceptions. 21. Perception of ideas leads to new ideas.   Sol Lewitt -- http://www.altx.com/vizarts/conceptual.html __  The face-to-face meetings with Jonathan are always very productive, expressing my ideas and anxieties out loud is…

Stillness and Movement

English: During the Low Residency period, we had the pleasure of talking with German artist and researcher living in London Sigune Hamann, who works primarily with photography and video. Her inspiration comes from different sources, and one of the main motivations in her work is in the interest of observing people and engaging in moments,…