The beginning of the 21st century is characterized by the exacerbation of artists personal identity, which makes it virtually impossible to uncover common lines of action. The strongest trait that can be identified is the importance of the conceptual component in the pieces. It’s not the radical conceptualism of the sixties, where the materialization of the pieces was dismissed, but rather the valorization of a strongly conceptual punchline that ends up being a defining one and, at the same time, guarantees the artist's engagement in the milieu of his time.
These times observed an equalization of the media, the artists complete freedom to choose and the respect for their idiosyncrasies, both to their ideas and to the production of the pieces. Video now cohabitates with painting; the installations don’t fight the sculptures for the main role, and the drawings transmute in all possible forms.
It is also in this time that the art of social intervention returns, stronger, and that they gain visibility, often with strong controversy. The projects were based on a political agenda that brought to light fundamental issues such as decolonization and sexual diversity.
S/ Título, da série “Habitar”, 1996
Esferográfica sobre papel
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un jardin à ma façon (a display) 2006
Árvore, Madeira, Papel e Terra, Lápis de cor
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1/10 de terra cultivável necessária para preencher o espaço da galeria, 2019
Terra de batatal
Are you safe when you are dreaming?, 2001
Sabão azul e branco, borracha, corda, tecido bordado e vinil autocolante.
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Noivos de Santo António, 2015
Transfer e acrílico s/ tecido.
Are you still awake?, 2002
C-print s/ lona.
On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, 2013
Colecção EDP
Smuggling Words, 2015
Mesa metálica, mala, livros triturados e lâmpada fluorescente
BLIND IMAGE #185, 2011
Acrílico e plexiglass
Durante o Sono, 2002
Ferro
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Burning in A forbidden Sea, 2011
Ferro
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Thick Layer of Silence (on entering the world), 2000
Ferro
Exotismo – Physiologus 2014
Pata de elefante, Livros
Botânica #3, 2012
Mesas de madeira, fotografias digitais, molduras de madeira e metal
Concrete Poem, 2012
Aço inoxidável polido e 7 vigas de betão
Vila Nova da Barquinha
Maison Tropicale, 2007
Materiais diversos
Talk Tower for Ingrid Jonker, 2012
MDF cinzento, altifalantes, som
A Noiva, 2001
Tampões OB, aço inoxidável, fio de algodão, cabos de aço
Colecção António Cachola
Trafaria Praia, 2013
Navio-motor de passageiros (1960), revestimento e mobiliário de cortiça
Dorothy, 2007
Panelas e tampas de aço inoxidável, cimento
Plantation Memories, 2008
Livro
Illusions Vol. I, Narcissus and Echo, 2017
Instalação vídeo com 2 canais de projeção, Edição 1/5
Colecção Gulbenkian