A serie of works related to cinema icons. Scratch Diva is the first serie dedicated to cinema divas iconography.

Scratch Diva

The proposal evolkes the game of mirrors (reversed in this case) involving the mystery of dreams, settled in the first place by the photographic method used (scanner table) and through the scarlet colour, a pictorial set alluding to the blood, that symbolizes both life and death and that at the end immediately relates to Sherlock Holmes first adventure, a Study in Scarlat. In conceptual terms, the work carries out ancient explorations of the author based on the mystery of the unconscious that have led to artistic pursuits reported to the Freud's psychoanalysis. The materials photographed (through the digitalized process of scanning) are crime evidences submerged in the subconscious that now emerged through visual materialization, transforming the public viewer the eyewitness of this sort of introspective criminal narrative. The Baker Street detective, himself a psychological analyst, who’s main working tool is the observation itself. Sherlock Holmes, has the capacity of seeing what no one else can, seeing through his own magnifying mirror of research, hidden traces, subliminal undercover, in the depths of the murder victim.



Scarlat Mirror

Filme Utopia. Starting from an essential principle: expanding beyond the margins of everyday consciousness the pictorial expression of sensitive utopias. Moving through the light arm, a major prism is in question: the writing film! 
Through this, Radical Beauty overcome the usual criticism of social construction of beautyness, mostly regarding the representations of the human soul in media. The concept [radical beauty] turns to be a theme but also a communication mechanism and therefore focus into a speciﬁc idea materialized through film. 
We know that aesthetic is experienced when our perceptual - interpretive processes do not manage to decode their input in terms of pre-existing concepts but nonetheless display a meaningful kind of coherence. This suggests that art provides perceptually ambiguous and indeﬁnite inputs and avoids the straightforward expression of unequivocal ideas. By the other end, creation expresses, most of all, dominant values.
This way, one aesthetic on the edge of the limits of art can be viewed as an artistic creation that expresses the desire of change. Likewise, radical beauty can change dominant values through creation, only achieved by the experience of an approach to the expression of new kind of ideals.

Filme Utopia #1:
"Sugar Candy Bars" 2019
Video: 2:04 min
Video and Film Archive Footage

Debut Exhibition: Blaue Stunde - All Stars. Koln. Germany. 11 January 2020. 

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Alberto Guerreiro