1,2,4. Instalation View, FIGAC, Obra na Residência III,
ESE-IPVC, Viana do Castelo
3. Video still, 1900x1080p, 10’00’’, H.264, loop, no sound On Youtube
5. Video still, 1900x1080p, 10’00’’, H.264, loop, no sound On Youtube
Alfaiate (in portuguese ‘tailor’ and ‘water strider’, common name for the animal Gerris lacustris) was the work I developed independently for the artistic residence FIGAC, held in a Higher School of Education for one week.
My work consisted in examining the school’s premises for objects that had been ‘touched’ or ‘transformed’ by students and eventualy tossed out. I made a selection of retrieved objects so as to explore in them alternatives for their intrinsic aesthetic value, by separating all use-related aspects from the objects. This was done by facing some upside down, some others were the result of tearing a previously existing object apart, meerly exposing one of its parts, etc.
This work was presented in two parts: the object collection and two videos related to this process.
