Spaces and Traces (Espaços e Rastos)
Group exhibition at Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal, 25/01/2025-15/03/2025
Curated by Constança Babo
Artwork:
Notes on Landscape #2, 2022
Participating artists: Marisa Ferreira, Inès d'Orey, Mafalda Santos, Noé Sendas, Vasco Araújo, Isaque Pinheiro, Roland Fischer, Diogo Pimentão, Maria Trabulo, Teresa TAF
Exhibition Text by curator Constança Babo
“Every presence leaves a trace in space. In the latter, as a place or a non-place, the human remains anonymous. It is precisely this anonymity that is important here, and which arises from the perception of a human presence in the space, despite the lack of a physical body. For, in the same way that there is no non-place without a place, since one exists in relation to the other, presence is also found in absence. But space is also abstract, and plastic, the realm of the artistic creation, and it is from here, from the recognition of the infinite extension of the spatial and the vast nature of what is a trace, that the present exhibition emerges. In a composition of several works, which unfolds and unravels throughout the gallery, spaces and traces are transposed, continuously and uninterruptedly, whether complementing, whether confronting each other.
Through here, different dimensions are found and crossed. The human explored in volumetry by Isaque Pinheiro, the sculpture that emerges from the drawing, with Diogo Pimentão, in relation to the materiality of copper, brought by Marisa Ferreira. The brutalist architecture, captured by Inês d’Orey, and the permeability of the perception of contemporary architecture, reveled by Roland Fischer, both in contrast with the archaeological, summoned by Maria Trabulo. From the gestures of Teresa TAF, that deeply explore matter and light, to the paper prints manipulated by Mafalda Santos. Among different experimental fields, the one of the images, through mechanisms of capture and representation, with Noé Sendas, and the one of the body, of memory and affection, in the work of Vasco Araújo.
In this way, through the articulation of diverse artistic practices, the exhibition rises between body and matter, interior and exterior, artist and artistic object, with creations as distinct and distant as contiguous. Because, just as everything that the human creates is his space and his trace, the artwork is also a trace, the artist’s trace.”
Group exhibition at Galeria Presença, Porto, Portugal, 25/01/2025-15/03/2025
Curated by Constança Babo
Artwork:
Notes on Landscape #2, 2022
Participating artists: Marisa Ferreira, Inès d'Orey, Mafalda Santos, Noé Sendas, Vasco Araújo, Isaque Pinheiro, Roland Fischer, Diogo Pimentão, Maria Trabulo, Teresa TAF
Exhibition Text by curator Constança Babo
“Every presence leaves a trace in space. In the latter, as a place or a non-place, the human remains anonymous. It is precisely this anonymity that is important here, and which arises from the perception of a human presence in the space, despite the lack of a physical body. For, in the same way that there is no non-place without a place, since one exists in relation to the other, presence is also found in absence. But space is also abstract, and plastic, the realm of the artistic creation, and it is from here, from the recognition of the infinite extension of the spatial and the vast nature of what is a trace, that the present exhibition emerges. In a composition of several works, which unfolds and unravels throughout the gallery, spaces and traces are transposed, continuously and uninterruptedly, whether complementing, whether confronting each other.
Through here, different dimensions are found and crossed. The human explored in volumetry by Isaque Pinheiro, the sculpture that emerges from the drawing, with Diogo Pimentão, in relation to the materiality of copper, brought by Marisa Ferreira. The brutalist architecture, captured by Inês d’Orey, and the permeability of the perception of contemporary architecture, reveled by Roland Fischer, both in contrast with the archaeological, summoned by Maria Trabulo. From the gestures of Teresa TAF, that deeply explore matter and light, to the paper prints manipulated by Mafalda Santos. Among different experimental fields, the one of the images, through mechanisms of capture and representation, with Noé Sendas, and the one of the body, of memory and affection, in the work of Vasco Araújo.
In this way, through the articulation of diverse artistic practices, the exhibition rises between body and matter, interior and exterior, artist and artistic object, with creations as distinct and distant as contiguous. Because, just as everything that the human creates is his space and his trace, the artwork is also a trace, the artist’s trace.”
Stratigraphy and (De)sedimentary series, 2022
Copper, 80 x 120 x 12 cm
Photography by Carlos Ramos/ Galeria Presença
