I have graduated in Painting at the Faculty of Fine
Arts in Lisbon, in 2007.
While studying, I enrolled on a Erasmus program in 2005, and spent some time at the École Régional des Beaux Arts of St. Étienne, in France.
I have participated in the Lisbon AAA – Abertura de Ateliês de Arista (“Open Studio Days”) between 2010 and 2012, and was selected to integrate the travelling exhibition of the European Young Creatives exhibition in 2011-2013, which includes 8-artists groups from each of the 10 participating countries.
In 2012 I participated in Marseilles’ Ouvertures d'Ateliers d'Artistes and organized my first Color Pencil Drawing workshop.
Although I have been always interested in painting, more recently I turned to drawing, specifically techniques using pencil drawings, gouaches and pastels. Gradually, I become more attracted to “less noble” materials, as it were. Oil painting demands quite a long, morose process, whereas working with pencil makes me look for a more precise and synthetic approach, where the margin of error is drastically low. And I do think that engaging with this material has opened new vistas and developments for my growth as both an artist and a human being.
Thematically speaking, I find the human figure, the human body, an infinite resource. The more I explore it, the more I find there is much to be explored. The relationship between the body and the audiences, its exposition and its expression are a source of fascination for me. We are living in a time in which privacy is mistaken for shyness and in which the body is exhibited without respecting its privacy. More often than not, when such a theme becomes the focus of a work, it still shocks the audiences. Why is that?
While studying, I enrolled on a Erasmus program in 2005, and spent some time at the École Régional des Beaux Arts of St. Étienne, in France.
I have participated in the Lisbon AAA – Abertura de Ateliês de Arista (“Open Studio Days”) between 2010 and 2012, and was selected to integrate the travelling exhibition of the European Young Creatives exhibition in 2011-2013, which includes 8-artists groups from each of the 10 participating countries.
In 2012 I participated in Marseilles’ Ouvertures d'Ateliers d'Artistes and organized my first Color Pencil Drawing workshop.
Although I have been always interested in painting, more recently I turned to drawing, specifically techniques using pencil drawings, gouaches and pastels. Gradually, I become more attracted to “less noble” materials, as it were. Oil painting demands quite a long, morose process, whereas working with pencil makes me look for a more precise and synthetic approach, where the margin of error is drastically low. And I do think that engaging with this material has opened new vistas and developments for my growth as both an artist and a human being.
Thematically speaking, I find the human figure, the human body, an infinite resource. The more I explore it, the more I find there is much to be explored. The relationship between the body and the audiences, its exposition and its expression are a source of fascination for me. We are living in a time in which privacy is mistaken for shyness and in which the body is exhibited without respecting its privacy. More often than not, when such a theme becomes the focus of a work, it still shocks the audiences. Why is that?
Partnerships
Four white washed walls. No, one of them is colored.
And two others, transparent. A transversal,
interdimensional object stands in front of them and open them up to an infinity
of parallel walls, each with their own rooms, slight variations of the first.
The last, fourth wall is made up of all the eyes of those whom have ever
visited us, visit us, will visit us. Eyes without which we would be left with
nothing but a poor tail of a non-peacock. The people of 39/93 works apart from
each other, in their own private cranny, and only meet during meal times. In
those commensal moments, complex and arcane recipes are hatched, by putting a
book into the pan or a drawing on an astrological map, perhaps a dash of poetic
sentences in a velvet embroidery that is a glove that is a doll that sings
strangely sober rubayats, or perhaps a small axiom that is a desire folded into
the form of letters and tortured into a mnemonic shape in a paper that you can
fold in your own pocket.
There are those who dirty their hands at all times, and those who are quite finicky about their nails. There are those who sing out loud as they type and those who sew shorts stories to fabric. There are those who paint with duct tape and those who draw with their eyes closed. There are those who listen to music in order to describe them with words and those who bury with words every single image they find.
Four white washed walls. All of them with doors. Wide open.
There are those who dirty their hands at all times, and those who are quite finicky about their nails. There are those who sing out loud as they type and those who sew shorts stories to fabric. There are those who paint with duct tape and those who draw with their eyes closed. There are those who listen to music in order to describe them with words and those who bury with words every single image they find.
Four white washed walls. All of them with doors. Wide open.
The goal of the Association Castelo D'if is the cultural and artistic promotion of its associates, especially through events and meetings where appreciation, divulgation and education for art and culture are the main focus, as well as the promotion of creation, production, diffusion and sale of art both in Portugal and abroad. However, there are also programs of Portuguese and foreign artists exchanges, and professional meetings with people working on all sorts of culture and arts-related areas.
From all the events organizes by this association, I was part of the Open Studio Days in Lisbon between the years of 2010 and 2012, and I co-organized myself one of the “Breakfast talks” in my own studio, 39|93. “
