LUZA Lab: Filipa Cruz
"TECIDOS SÃO DE LUZ E SÃO A NOITE"
VENUE: FÁBRICA DA CERVEJA FROM: france & portugal A eulogy to Eugénio de Andrade, «Tecidos são de luz e são a noite» reflects on the inevitability of fallow, watering, cultivation and harvest periods. Thus, fallow is not only understood as the required time for stopping, for distance, and for breathing in one's light/life. These metaphorical rakes are bodies and life. We see rakes that lead us to the universe of encounters and/or of mismatches. These bodies leave tracks that mark and that disappear. They are dust with flesh, skin and organs that lose flesh, skin and organs. «Tecidos são de luz e são a noite» embody choices and stories that we consciously and unconsciously trace while experimenting visibility solutions. In this misty cloud, you and I are a misaligned, two rowdy hearts at forbidden times. We are two gray-laden plane rips that intersect in the populated/inhabited of the sky. FILIPA CRUZ Born in Viseu in 1990, Filipa Cruz lives and works between Portugal and France. Has a Doctor’s Degree Unanimously Approved with Distinction with the Thesis “Everything I wanted to tell you: The undefinition, illegibility, invisibility, and language’s insufficiency in the artistic practice” (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto; a Masters in Fine Arts Approved with Distinction (École Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts de Paris); a Post-graduation in Aesthetics (Université Panthéon-Sorbonne); a Higher Degree in Fine Arts-Multimedia (Beaux-Arts de Paris). Filipa is an artist (www.filipacruz.com), researcher, and professor. Since 2012, has held individual and collective exhibitions and participated in numerous international conferences as Speaker. Filipa relates sculpture, installation and literature in a sculptural image that is both eternal and ephemeral. Won Herberto Hélder’s Guest Scientist Grant (2017), the Artistic Creation’s Grant conceded by the Azorean Government (2016) and a Research Grant by Medeiros e Almeida Foundation. Filipa is an Integrated Researcher in i2ADS – Research Institute of Art, Design and Society and is a Professor in Paris College of Art (Paris), and in Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto (Porto). |
LUZA Lab: Raquel Fradique
“lIGHT SOUND”
VENUE: FÁBRICA DA CERVEJA FROM: portugal “Light Sound” is an audiovisual show where its creation is done in live act, in a relationship between sound and visual capture. The subdivision of the two components (sound and image) has as its starting point the mystique of what is light and its absence. Sound uptake develops by intrigue of the sound produced in the propagation of light. The sound piece is based on the capture electro-acoustic, always present in entropic experimental language. In turn, visual capture is based on microscopic separation details associated with light emission and projection, creating textures and ambiences with breadth galaxy for visual experiences. Raquel Fradique Visual artist born May 2019, graduated in Communication Design, currently works in design and produces sculpture and drawing in her studio in Ansião. Digital art and experimentation with various materials are also areas he explores. |
LUZA Lab: Paola Grecia
“AS PARCAS”
VENUE: FÁBRICA DA CERVEJA FROM: portugal & venezuela In “As Parcas” a blood analysis is monitored and represented through glucose stability / instability. The way a diabetic body balances between peaks – deadly uncontrollability – and controlled – temporally controlled stability – is imprinted in the warmth of a body, of wax. Through the action of light, wax evokes even more its warmth, its life, its body, its skin. "As Parcas" are three bodies translucent illuminated by artificial light. Light and wax become a clock with a needle whose threads mark the durability of bodies. Anachronistically recorded symptoms, a tear between two halves that disunite between ups and downs. "As Parcas", as seismographs of life, draw, and register the ephemeral and the intensity. Suggesting clairvoyance, light evokes the fragility of the bodies until the twilight turns off the power switch. Grécia Paola is a Luso-Venezuelan artist. Has a Masters in Fine Arts-Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto with the thesis «An Inexhaustible Will of ∞: An exercise of sculpting time in artistic practice», and a Higher Degree in Fine Arts-Sculpture in the same institution. Having already exhibited at Vila Nova de Cerveira (2018), at Lugar do Desenho (2018), at Cantanhede Biennale and having developed public space projects in Madeira (2011) and in Porto (PortoCartoon (2019)), Grécia Paola develops a proposal based on the triad body – will – matter. Thus, in Grécia Paola’s artistic practice, the body is conceived from a psychophysiological point of view and the eye is invited, seduced to want to enter the non-immediate. |