For this work, I have been exploring the memories of myself as a little 9 year-old boy. I am experimenting mostly with sculpting clay and old crockery dolls collected in Lisbon's flea markets, taking inspiration from traditional fairy tales around the world. Fairy tales are problematic children stories on which the basis of cultural issues in every society, such as racism and sexism, are often founded. They are a big part of what concerns me, an aesthetic construction of gender roles and stereotypes from hundred years ago.
In this project, I create characters and scenarios of a singular universe, only possible in the mind of a boy who's intending to find a place to belong to. The creatures portrayed are both sexual and innocent, feminine and gore, romantic and uncanny. I aim to better comprehend the potential of storytelling within a piece but, ultimately, my intention has always been the same: to stimulate a sense of invaded intimacy, as if one was exposed or naked and uncomfortable.


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