sem Corpo / Disembodied
Event
With a reflective and singular career, Vera Mota (Porto, 1982) has been developing her work around the politics of the body, promoting and weighting its participation as a generative methodology and axis for conceptual formulations. Resorting mainly to sculpture, drawing and performance, and thus taking advantage of the breadth and permeability that these disciplines offer, her artistic practice involves a strong material component.
In the work of Vera Mota, performance emerges as a means of production, composition or even staging, in a process where the body as the almost always indispensable agent, imprinting its gestures and circulations. The artist pays special attention to the economy of presence, effort and action, the artist proposes successive exercises of repositioning of the body, sometimes subjecting it to processes of almost complete erosion of its characteristics. Assuming a sculptural animism and claiming other perspectives of the body and materiality, Vera Mota reassesses modes of representation, proposing processes and strategies of disqualification, transfer or transfiguration of forms, status or functions, among bodies or the parts that compose them.
DISEMBODIED is the artist's first exhibition in a museum - as if from the hands to the head - proposes a permanent and tense dialogue between drawing and sculpture, in which the spectators find themselves involved.
In the work of Vera Mota, performance emerges as a means of production, composition or even staging, in a process where the body as the almost always indispensable agent, imprinting its gestures and circulations. The artist pays special attention to the economy of presence, effort and action, the artist proposes successive exercises of repositioning of the body, sometimes subjecting it to processes of almost complete erosion of its characteristics. Assuming a sculptural animism and claiming other perspectives of the body and materiality, Vera Mota reassesses modes of representation, proposing processes and strategies of disqualification, transfer or transfiguration of forms, status or functions, among bodies or the parts that compose them.
DISEMBODIED is the artist's first exhibition in a museum - as if from the hands to the head - proposes a permanent and tense dialogue between drawing and sculpture, in which the spectators find themselves involved.
