this could be Art

I split my mind in two. Perhaps it's like the tension that my naïveté causes. Oftentimes my pieces come from a place of myth, mystery, fantasy or wonder. - lies! it's all Drama dear gent...this lady is a fantasist! (moving on) Other times I am the one wondering into what liminality am I entering into? Is this a vision? pew pew lights! and poetry. something is born inside the core which is loud and light - a place that manifests internal narratives and where all stories are constructed. I work through drawing & painting because these are the safe spaces where I can decipher imaginary landscapes, translate my attempt of an animistic response to the (oh so-called) disenchanted west world and portray a nomadic sense of reality flow and wandering transformation. I work in video because I love buttons and wearing glasses. This started as a blog (remember those?) but I guess you can call it my sort of portfolio. Unless you dwell too much on my archive.

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Pássareixe, 2021

desenho digital

digital drawing

(Since I was a child that I’ve dreamt about these creatures.

In Portuguese you have pássaro for bird and peixe for fish. A pássareixe is a mix of both these 2 creatures: they live both on air and water and are incredibly light. They always bring colour to my dreams.)

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“Creatures of the Air and Sea”, Artrepreneur prize winner - 2021

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Studies of Pompeii - what my lockdown became

Desenho digital

Digital drawing

Edinburgh - 2020

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Selkie & Other non-tales from the Sea

Our piece was inspired by the shapeshifting myth of the Selkie where humans take on and pass between animal form to both find and lose home at land and sea. With borderless lines to Scottish, Irish, Inuit and Scandanavian mythologies, Selkies link the physical habitat and presence of seals and the human world in a domestic tale. Starting from one of many folk songs about it we retell this myth in a borderless context with an immersive installation and video work that melds contemporary and archive footages in a diptych of a dual screen projection and a doubled sound piece that tries to explore our memories of the Sea as home and the slips between binary identity and hybridity.

Edinburgh, 2018

collaboration with Clive McLachlan Powell

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The Route , 2018

Aguarela e lápis de cor em papel fabriano

watercolor and colored pencil in fabriano

University of Antwerp Grauwzusters Campus, Belgium 2018

Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland 2018

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Dark Days Exit, seven stories before the end of the world

vídeo, instalação

video, installation

(ECA Festival, Edinburgh 2019)

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Dark Days Exit, seven stories before the end of the world

vídeo, instalação, desenho,

video, installation, drawing

(ECA Festival, Edinburgh 2019)

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Dark Days Exit, seven stories before the end of the world

aguarela em papel canson, lápis de cor

watercolor on blue canson, colored pencil

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(The number shop gallery, Edinburgh - 2018

ECA Festival, University of Edinburgh 2019)

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Dark Days Exit, seven stories before the end of the world

vídeo instalação

video installation

(ECA Festival, Edinburgh - 2019

The number shop gallery, Edinburgh - 2018)

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so if it’s not on a canvas it’s not a painting

Aguarela em papel canson 300g

Watercolour on canson paper 300g

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(The number shop gallery, Edinburgh - 2018)

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Arthur's rocks

Moldes de pedras em gesso, cartão metalico dourado, risografia

stone casts in plaster, metallic gold cardboard and risoprint

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(The number shop gallery, Edinburgh - 2018)

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Untitled

Aguarela em canson 200g, lápis de cor, moldura e extensões de cabelo

Watercolor in canson 200g, colored pencils, frame and hair extensions

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(The number shop gallery, Edinburgh - 2018)

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Naar

Aguarela e grafite

watercolour and graphite

Belgium, 2016

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Fix 2015

Laser print em MDF, fotografias, pele de peixe, vidro//

laser print on MDF, photographs, fish skin, glass

(”Arte, um assunto de mulheres” Galeria Trem, Faro, Portugal - 2015 – 2016)

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Sem título/ Untitled

Aguarela e guache sob papel amarelo //

watercolour and gouache on yellow paper

(AVinte e dois, Faro, Portugal -  2015)

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Título Impressões em offset, madeira de pinho, metal dourado, cabo de aço, lampâda, manta plástica preta

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Title

Offset prints, pine wood, gilded metal, steel cable, lamp and black plastic blanket

(A22 exhibition, Faro, Portugal - 2015)

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Pablo's Neruda soneto XI;

My favourite. no reason attached.

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please forgive my not-so-good-french.

[(excerpts)

Baudelaire's Correspondance + La vie atérieure

"On Some motifs in Baudelaire" Walter Benjamin - Illuminations

- parêntesis suspensos - ]]

spitting poetry II