CONVERSA is a performance that consists in exploring the space of dialogue between the former sound pressure and other forms of artistic creation, namely writing, painting and sculpture. This encounter between the six artists had occurred in a period of one month. The performance is divided in three nuclei composed by two artists: in the first duo, writing and voice are represented; in the second duo, pain- ting and bassoon; and finally, the third duo is composed by sculpture and drums.
This project is based on a desire for close- ness and on the ability of the morphology of languages. In this construction the spectator has to position himself constantly in order to handle the transforming space. Thereby the audience becomes active material itself.
The first duo consists of the artist Maria Miguel von Hafe writing a document that is projected onto the wall, and Arianna Casellas, who will interpret the text with her voice as it is directed. The second duo is composed by Natacha Martins, who pain- ted two large format canvas, stretched on the wall, and Mariana Rocha, with the bassoon. The third duo is composed by Francisco Babo, with materials and tools of sculpture, and Gonçalo Araújo, who is in the drums.

Made in situ, the painting environment Cancelled Flight (2020) questions the space of interaction between the spectator and the artist in different valences: its realization, installation and fifinal perception. The work, through its vivid colours and turbulent forms, questions the safety and comfort of current movements. It uses, metaphorically, the corner of the exhibition space to re-enact a place of ephemeral intimacy.

Cancelled Flight

Already Seen (2020) is a series that speaks about the body perception in the screen.

Already Seen

Portrait Of Rosie

All Painters Are Liars is a seductive and provocative essay on the vitality of painting. 

All Painters Are Liars

Crucificação e Deposição de Cristo (“Cruxifition and Deposition of Christ”) (2019) enacts an inhospitable context of intimacy between the image, the viewer and the author.Constructs an essay on the dissolvable vulnerability and awareness of the Human Condition in the Contemporary. The artist deprives herself of 72 hours of sleep, in order to finally rest in the exhibition space.

Reflecting on the collective visual heritage, the artist builds a model of transcendence through the voyeur dissonance of the work and its experience. The reference to the artist’s body and personal life as a vulnerable object, charge the viewer with the power of divinity and critical empowerment.

This work is currently part of the Jeune Création Européenne 2019-2021 Bienalle D’Art Contemporain - an itinerant exhibition through Europe, presenting this piece until 2021 in eight different countries: France, Denmark, Latvia, Romania, Italy, Spain and Portugal.

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