Perceptions and Movements
(Percepções e Movimentos)

Group exhibition at Galeria Presença, 20/01/2024 - 09/03/2024

Curated by Constança Babo 

Artworks
Expanded Series Yellow, 2024
Expanded Series Blue III, 2024

Participating artists: Marisa Ferreira, Carlos Mensil, Isaque Pinheiro, Roland Fischer, Diogo Pimentão, Lia Chaia, David Magán, Angelika Huber.

Press Review by Cláudia Handem for ArteCapital https://www.artecapital.net/exposicao-811-colectiva-percepcoes-e-movimentos

Drawing from the seminal art exhibition “Primary Structures” curated by Kynaston McShine and held at the Jewish Museum in 1966, Marisa Ferreira´s new artworks from the “Expanded series” (2017-) present her ongoing investigation on “ruin waste” (Edensor, 2005) capacity to trace urban transformation. The Expanded series evokes Ferreira’s memories of walking in abandoned industrial buildings in the Ave region, in the north of Portugal. The series explores its architectural elements (ceilings) through serial and geometric forms juxtaposed in a mathematical progression to create an illusion of spatial depth, also accentuated by the reflective mirror surfaces that recall the sensory aspects of the fragmented ruins (sense of mystery, subversive potential) while also making the observer aware of their perception shift as he/ she/ they move through space. These experimental approaches to form, materiality, and structure express Marisa’s early interest in the creative potential of colour and the everyday, in industrial materials, techniques, and processes of industrial fabrication, in actively redefining the relationship between painting and sculpture, form and content, time and space, and in the viewer’s engagement with the artwork, while stepping into a realm where art intertwines with themes of memory, place, and identity.

- Marisa Ferreira, January 2024

Installation views, 2024
Photography by Carlos Campos/ Galeria Presença