uma nova poesia visual
UMA NOVA POESIA VISUAL
A group show presenting works chosen through open call, adapting to the site of the old train station in Canelas, Portugal. With a theme of the environment and sustainability, a symbiosis between the artists work sustains a diverse but consistent content. A visual poetry of small fragments are extracted by diverse cultures and practices, creating a sensibility that allows us to make small records which will be attached to our memory, inadvertently. It is these small records that allow us to heal, to mourn, with a certain nostalgia, where destruction can represent a new creative ecosystem.
(Adapted from exhibition text)
Exhibition opening: 08 SEP 2022
Continues 09 - 22 SEP from 15h-19H
Ariana Jouhand / Barbara Palandeng / Catarina Vilaça / Isabelle Louise / Nina Fraser
ESTAÇAO Cultural Association, Rua da Estação 3865-007, Canelas-Estarreja
A group show presenting works chosen through open call, adapting to the site of the old train station in Canelas, Portugal. With a theme of the environment and sustainability, a symbiosis between the artists work sustains a diverse but consistent content. A visual poetry of small fragments are extracted by diverse cultures and practices, creating a sensibility that allows us to make small records which will be attached to our memory, inadvertently. It is these small records that allow us to heal, to mourn, with a certain nostalgia, where destruction can represent a new creative ecosystem.
(Adapted from exhibition text)
Exhibition opening: 08 SEP 2022
Continues 09 - 22 SEP from 15h-19H
Ariana Jouhand / Barbara Palandeng / Catarina Vilaça / Isabelle Louise / Nina Fraser
ESTAÇAO Cultural Association, Rua da Estação 3865-007, Canelas-Estarreja
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» Folhas do Inverno I (2022) Frottage (National Geographic magazine, beeswax, iron) on Japanese Rice Paper, Variable dimensions A Frottage technique is created from the application of heat and beeswax rubbed onto a vintage National Geographic magazine to transfer its ink to Japanese rice paper. The leaves are placed under the paper, revealing their form as an imprint. The process harnesses metamorphic qualities, and embodies a transference of time to the present state - my memory of a woodland walk is now embodied in a symbolic gesture. The leaf image acts as a reminder of our increasing psychological distance from nature, as well as demonstrating a universal representation of cycles, decay and regrowth. |
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» Throwing dreams into space (2020) magazine collage, wooden support 56 cm x 46 cm x 2 cm |
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» Unconscionable map (a law set in stone) (2021)
Pandemic instructional floor signage (altered) 58 x 58 cm |
"...In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province.“
Jorge Luis Borges Jorge Luis Borges writes “On Exactitude in Science” in the form of a literary forgery, describing a fictional empire so adept at cartography that they are able to make a map of the exact size and dimensions of the Empire itself. When future generations lost interest in mapmaking the massive maps decay and lie in tattered ruins across the empire. An Unconscionable Map is accidentally discovered, turned over, outside a local supermarket in 2020, at the start of the pandemic. An indexical image of the ground beneath it, the Calçada Portuguesa is captured perfectly as dirt residue, whilst the red shadow behind reflects the colour of a warning. Holding residual temporal qualities of time, place and language, the work demonstrates a head on collision with a period of great global upheaval, speaking to us individually, or not, depending on our position. |