Primary Structures: A place beyond failure

Primary Structures: A place beyond failure

Solo exhibition at Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal, 13/01/2018-03/03/2018

Artworks:

Race to the bottom, 2017
Expanded Series Green II. 2017
Expanded Series Blue, 2017

Series Industrial Windows I, 2018 Series Industrial Windows II, 2018 Series Industrial Windows III, 2017 Series Industrial Windows IV, 2018

Series Cabinet I, 2017
Series Cabinet II, 2017

“Drawing from a tactile encounter with space and materiality, these works were born from a survey on the aesthetics of disorder, geometry, materiality and colour of four Portuguese companies that went bankruptcy in the decade 1998-2008. Built essentially with industrial materials such as steel, stainless steel and glass, these works are closely linked to our collective memory, desire and place. Perhaps a way of not forgetting this part of the Portuguese history of industrial development, "the time of abandonment", after these abandoned buildings are demolished, recovered, or given a new function.”

-- Marisa Ferreira, December 2017

Installation views of Primary Structures: A place beyond failure, 2018
Photography by Carlos Campos/ Galeria Presença