Exhibition
Major Arcana
This work was developed during an artist residency in Shanghai with the theme Major Arcana of the Tarot, which resulted in an exhibition at the Art Labour Gallery with two other artists.
In the Tarot, each card is linked to a meaning and any modification of this meaning depends on the other cards dealt. As far as orientation is concerned, this is given by the other cards that will define the general orientation.
Year: 2008
Venue: Art World Project / Art Labor Gallery – Shanghai
Technique: Manipulation of digitalised images printed on fabric. Acrylic painting and resin reliefs.
Format: 100 x 100 cm
From here, when I started working on the Tarot, I decided to represent not only the card itself, but also the meaning that the different combinations of cards can take on in the different astral divisions.
This will represent a kind of ‘given information’ that is everything but the visible and the invisible, along with our personal wishes and desires that can also change the destiny shown by the cards.
Year: 2008
Venue: Art World Project / Art Labor Gallery – Shanghai
Technique: Manipulation of digitalised images printed on fabric. Acrylic painting and resin reliefs.
Format: 100 x 100 cm
This work was developed during an artist residency in Shanghai with the theme Major Arcana of the Tarot, which resulted in an exhibition at the Art Labour Gallery with two other artists.
In the Tarot, each card is linked to a meaning and any modification of this meaning depends on the other cards dealt. As far as orientation is concerned, this is given by the other cards that will define the general orientation.
From here, when I started working on the Tarot, I decided to represent not only the card itself, but also the meaning that the different combinations of cards can take on in the different astral divisions.
This will represent a kind of ‘given information’ that is everything but the visible and the invisible, along with our personal wishes and desires that can also change the destiny shown by the cards.
A Torre
Perturbação. Conflito. Mudança. Perda súbita e violenta. Derrubada de um modo de vida existente. Grandes mudanças. Alteração de rotinas. Reviravolta dramática. Repercussões generalizadas das acções. No final, a iluminação e a liberdade.
When I undertake to work the Tarot, I start to think about how to give my own idea of the way I feel about people’s possible relationships with the future.
Decidi trabalhar com bonecas, bonecas com rostos e corpos de bebé nas suas expressões quase humanas como símbolo de um discurso mudo nunca terminado e sempre (re)nascido. As bonecas com os seus rostos puros e inocentes exprimem os nossos desejos e medos mais profundos e inconscientes. Através dos rostos das bonecas estabeleci a relação entre a vida futura de cada uma derretida com a “informação obtida” anunciada pelas cartas de Tarot.
Escolhi bonecas, bonecas em forma de corpos jovens, porque através dos rostos das bonecas pude estabelecer a relação entre a vida futura de cada um como prevista pelas cartas do Tarot, fundida com os nossos desejos, vontades e medos. Com os rostos e corpos das minhas bonecas vou (re)nascer o futuro, pois as jovens bonecas parecem ser o nosso próprio (re)nascimento no nosso dia a dia e na nossa mente.
