Textile Work "Overcoming Fear"
Event
The artist Mónica Faria inaugurates the Textile Work "Vencer o Medo" (Overcoming Fear) on March 11, at 4pm, at the Árvore Cooperative.
According to the artist, " Overcoming Fear" "is a daily exercise present from the simplest gesture such as waking up or eating. The space is occupied by everyday elements from which webs are woven, creating plots and recording symbolic narratives - of lived, imagined or invented experiences. It is a vicious circle, or just a cycle, where ending only happens with a beginning. All these elements converge into a fringe. Fringe that, like the outline of the arraiolos carpet, defines the shape of a house, fed by the looms presented. This is an artistic installation, in which the author confronts us with the need to make a decision. Do I say or not say? Do I go or not go? To marry or not to marry... to forget or not to forget! To scream or not to scream.... To give or not to give. I either kill or I don't kill. I hear or I don't hear. I enter or I don't enter!
Mónica Faria lives in Porto and works between Guimarães and Porto. She studied Plastic Arts - Sculpture at FBAUP (2005), participated in the Erasmus Programme - Coventry (2003), developed her MA in Visual Arts Education at FPCEUP (2010), FCT scholarship (2012-2016) - with research in Fieldwork in the quilombola community Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, Brazil - completed her PhD in Art Education at FBAUP (2016). She participated in the artistic residency Peninsulares - Contextile/Estúdio Índigo/Museu Nacional de Artes Decorativas Madrid (2021). Solo exhibition, "Unstable Culture" - Museu Nogueira da Silva (2023). Equivalent Guest Professor to Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design - EAAD of the University of Minho (since 2018). Since 2017, integrated researcher in Lab2PT/SpaceR.
According to the artist, " Overcoming Fear" "is a daily exercise present from the simplest gesture such as waking up or eating. The space is occupied by everyday elements from which webs are woven, creating plots and recording symbolic narratives - of lived, imagined or invented experiences. It is a vicious circle, or just a cycle, where ending only happens with a beginning. All these elements converge into a fringe. Fringe that, like the outline of the arraiolos carpet, defines the shape of a house, fed by the looms presented. This is an artistic installation, in which the author confronts us with the need to make a decision. Do I say or not say? Do I go or not go? To marry or not to marry... to forget or not to forget! To scream or not to scream.... To give or not to give. I either kill or I don't kill. I hear or I don't hear. I enter or I don't enter!
Mónica Faria lives in Porto and works between Guimarães and Porto. She studied Plastic Arts - Sculpture at FBAUP (2005), participated in the Erasmus Programme - Coventry (2003), developed her MA in Visual Arts Education at FPCEUP (2010), FCT scholarship (2012-2016) - with research in Fieldwork in the quilombola community Conceição das Crioulas, Pernambuco, Brazil - completed her PhD in Art Education at FBAUP (2016). She participated in the artistic residency Peninsulares - Contextile/Estúdio Índigo/Museu Nacional de Artes Decorativas Madrid (2021). Solo exhibition, "Unstable Culture" - Museu Nogueira da Silva (2023). Equivalent Guest Professor to Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Art and Design - EAAD of the University of Minho (since 2018). Since 2017, integrated researcher in Lab2PT/SpaceR.
