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15/10/2021

 
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Nina Fraser presents her fundraising exhibition home, on view at Espaço Cultural Mercês from 15 - 22 Oct and online from 16 Oct - 30 Nov 2021. Focussing on home - or its absence - as a conduit for accessing multiple layers of emotional experience and perception, the exhibition makes reference to the artist's notion of identity and place, considering how individual experience, memory and the transformative effect of trauma can become collective subjects of contemplation and action. Nina's work frequently uses found images as a method of both disrupting narrative and questioning assumptions proposed through a media saturated environment, connecting to a deeply personal exploration into what it means to belong in the world.

The work in this exhibition, made between 2015 and 2021, consists of predominantly analogue collages, as well as some drawing, watercolour and linocut. Each work is priced at €100. The exhibition fundraiser will help the artist and her partner rebuild their lives after a gas explosion destroyed their home and all their possessions just before Christmas of 2020. Proceeds from this exhibition will help pay the €9000 required to stabilise the area of the explosion, an expense which falls solely on the tenants of the property and needs to be paid by the end of 2021. 
​Additionally, 10% of the proceeds will be donated to CRESCER, a Lisbon charity who work tirelessly in assisting those in chronic need of housing, are homeless or do not have access to government support.
Nina Fraser apresenta a exposição de angariação de fundos home, patente no Espaço Cultural Mercês, de 15 a 22 de Outubro, e online, de 16 de Outubro a 30 de Novembro de 2021. Centrando-se na casa - ou na sua ausência - como elemento que permite aceder a múltiplos planos de experiência emocional e de percepção, a exposição parte do entendimento que a artista tem dos conceitos de identidade e de lugar, considerando o modo como a experiência  individual, a memória e o efeito transformador do trauma se podem tornar em temas colectivos de contemplação e de acção. No seu trabalho, Nina Fraser usa com frequência imagens existentes/encontradas como método para criar uma disrupção narrativa e para questionar as premissas que nos são propostas através de um ambiente saturado com informação, assim procurando uma forma mais profunda de exploração pessoal do que possa significar estar no mundo.
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O corpo de trabalho apresentado nesta exposição foi desenvolvido entre 2015 e 2021 e consiste sobretudo num conjunto de colagens afins, incluindo ainda algum desenho, aguarela e linogravura. A cada trabalho foi dado o valor de 100€. A exposição de angariação de fundos ajudará a artista e o seu companheiro a refazer as suas vidas após uma explosão ter destruído a casa onde moravam e tudo o que possuíam antes do Natal de 2020. Os benefícios da exposição irão ajudar a pagar as despesas de 9000€ de estabilização da área destruída, uma despesa que deve ser suportada apenas pelos proprietários e que deverá ser paga até ao final do ano de 2021.
Além disso, 10% de todos os benefícios angariados serão doados à CRESCER, uma associação de caridade sediada em Lisboa que trabalha incansavelmente na assistência de quem está em situação de falta de habitação crónica, sem abrigo ou sem acesso a apoio governamental.
Espaço Cultural Mercês 
Rua Cecílio de Sousa, 94, 1200-102 Lisboa 

Exhibition opening: 15 October 2021  6 - 9pm 
Monday to Friday 2pm - 8pm
Continues: 15 October to 22 October 2021
Online: 15 October to 30 November 2021

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  • Work
    • 2025 >
      • Perception / finding ground
    • 2024 >
      • Deliquesce
      • Vegetal matters
    • 2023 >
      • mycelium
      • a study in psycho-cybernetics
      • CALENDÁRIO AVULSO
      • Winter leaves
      • Unconnected Yet
    • 2022 >
      • The Anxiety of Interdisciplinarity
      • Unconscionable map
      • uma nova poesia visual
      • AMETHYST DECEIVER
      • Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds
    • 2021 >
      • Home
      • tales of turbulence and tulips
      • Circle series
    • 2020 >
      • (E)arthly Delights
      • The Garden
      • Found Landscapes
    • 2019 >
      • Taxis Derma
      • Menagerie
      • QUAL Paisagem
      • Winter Sunrise
      • Sublime
      • The Centre Cannot Hold II
      • The Centre Cannot Hold
    • 2018 >
      • Caught up in the field
      • Disconnected Event
      • FLYGA FLADDRA
      • Consequential
    • 2017 >
      • Shop Magazine
      • [framing illusive]
      • ROCKS
      • Bag Forest
    • > 2016 >
      • what might have been simply displaced
      • CHAOS &INFUSION
      • (un)form
      • Fragments
    • Drawing >
      • for the time being
      • Still, time
      • BODY & PLACE
      • Expanded Landscape
      • Islands
      • Abstract Markings
    • Print >
      • Menagerie
  • Info
    • Bio
    • CV
    • Texts >
      • Undomesticated Ground (text)
      • A Study in Psycho-cybernetics?
      • Home (text)
      • Learning from the bricoleur in times of crisis
      • Taxis Derma (text)
      • Sublime (text)
  • News
  • Artist Mentoring
  • Contact