IF I DIDN’T KNOW… I WOULD DIE

IF I DIDN”T KNOW… I WOULD DIE

2005, video/color/sound 4”32′

SYNOPSIS:

Two characters are talking… they long for each other and the sea is always there… forever.

VOICES AND TEXT TRANSLATION:

(VOICE) -Hello, my hands are cold. Maybe I come back tomorrow.

(TEXT)-Hello, do you remember me… It’s been so long.

-I think we were happier togheter. We used to swim… and the sea was always bigger, I could have been more pacient.

-Yesterday I thought that maybe you were looking for me. Yesterday was a regular day.

-I take the sadness from the same place where I remember you. And it’s so hard to go there… one day to go… and two days to come back.

-I will stay here until I see you again. I will not move until I die.

-I will stay here until I see you again. I will not move until I die.

VIDEO STILLS:

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Original title: Se eu não soubesse… morria

English Title: If I didn’t knew I would die

Year: 2006

Time: 4”36

Language: portuguese

Music: Massive Attack

Country: Portugal

Pier 7

PIER 7

2006, video/color/sound 4”17′

SYNOPSIS:

In Pier 7, in the 7th day, of the 7th month at 7 o’clock. A promise and a date scheduled somewhere in time… a train takes her back to the past to remember her that love happened. Back to reality she will have to wait, wait,wait…

VIDEO STILLS:

title: Pier 7

year: 2006

time: 4 min.

language: german with english subtitles

genre: video art, fiction

director: Maria Inês Ferreira

actors: Carolina Martorell, Monika Krauss

voice-off: Nicky Timm / voices: Janina Wick, Christian Desbonnets

german translation: Monika Ellenberg

music: Marek Szenk

technical support: André Alder

country: Germany

color: color

ONE ROSE ARE ALL ROSES

“One Rose are all Roses”/ Uma rosa são todas as rosas

limestone sculpture : Negrais red stone / Vermelho de Negrais

2008

NO TITLES

NO TITLES

2006, video/color/sound 4”36′

“No-Titles” is the name of the collective film created by a team of 17 persons for the itinerant exhibition “At the world gates” / “Às Portas do Mundo” and produced by the ProJustitae Foundation and Casa da Animação.

This work arised from the proposal of making one artistic element to join the exhibition based in the exhibition itself. A film that would register one more opinion about the contemporary art of diferent countries with one comum language. This project was possible with the workshop of the animation cinema and sound profissionals: José Miguel Ribeiro, Fernando Galrito e Pedro Lima.

It was in Évora’s Visual Arts University that we made the studio captions: drawing and objects animation studio, caption and sound manipulation studio (one of the original sounds that we created was using our voices and the words with “ão, õe” suffix, one nasal sound comum in portuguese language, in words such as irmão, coração, paixão, pão / brother, heart, passion, bread) and we edited the film in the multimedia classroom.

After the film was ready we gathered in the same DVD a menu with small videos and audio recordings taken from all the material that we captured and created, and with these “short-movies” and sound registers we’ve made a multimedia installation at the Évora’s recreative society S.H.E. (Sociedade Harmonia Eborense), and for one night we changed the lights, we’ve made video projections in the walls, ceiling,windows, and sound installations around the spaces of the most frequented place of the city, showing our work to our colleagues, students and habitants of Évora.

And the “No-Titles” film followed it’s travel with the program of the exhibition, scheduled for Rio de Janeiro, Luanda, Cabo Verde, São Tomé, Maputo e Díli.

English Title: “No-Titles”

Original title: “Sem-títulos”

Crew: Nuno Vicente, Sofia Miranda, Maria Inês Ferreira, Filipe Siquenique, João Pedro Mateus, Marisa Cardoso, Denise C. Silva, Maria João Carvalho, Carla Dias

Coordination: Fernando Galrito, José Miguel Ribeiro, Pedro Lima

Produced by: Fundação ProJustitiae, Casa da Animação

Executive production: Mário Nogueira, Ricardo Leite

Technical support: Marius Araújo, Rui Louro

Support: Évora’s University- Arts department; Évora’s Town Hall; Contacto’s Insurance, ESAD Caldas da Rainha- Art and Design School, R.D.P.-África, R.T.P., Antena 1, S.H.E.Sociedade Harmonia Eborense

A project with the support from the portuguese Republic’s President.

ÉVORA, 2006

VIDEO STILLS:

“AT THE WORLD GATES” (“ÀS PORTAS DO MUNDO”) THE EXHIBITION:

http://www.projustitiae.pt/site/asportasdomundo/asportasdomundo.htm

http://www.projustitiae.pt

“This cultural project embraces an itinerant contemporary art exhibition together with a lecture cycle, a social and cultural enlivenment programme consisting of a video and cinema cycle and an educational service gathering several pedagogical initiatives such as guided tours, animation and video art workshops.”

The itinerant contemporary art exhibition under the title “Plurality inside of the Portuguese language” shows the work of 29 artists coming from East Timor, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde Islands, S.Tomé e Príncipe, Angola, Mozambique, Brazil and Portugal. During the programmed itinerancy, several works resulting from different forms of artistic intervention shall be exhibited. Among those works some have been purposely produced for this project; the movie “No-Tiles” (“Sem-Títulos”) makes now part of the exhibition.

NARCISSUS ELIMINATION

NARCISSUS ELIMINATION

2004, video/color/sound

Synopsis:

My starting point is a white sheet of paper, and throught a complex network of lines will be covered in black, thus withdraw the Narcissus within, that parted from being unique, with chances to grow, to get passionate and to evolve into a colorful flower to become a black paper.

My Narcissus Elimination, the metamorphic process and the sound of the etches were captured in video.

THE METAMORPHOSE:

First Drawing ink on paper 21×29cm, 2004

Last Drawing ink on paper 21×29cm, 2004

Departing from a white sheet of paper, a serie of complex thoughts made me create a drawing in black ink.

Looking to my own work  I discovered my talent: my first pride of all. I realize then that I’m my self-admirer so I called my drawing: Narcissus.

So, as in the Greek mythology my Narcissus or myself will drown in their own reflection.

I took the drawing and I kept on fullfilling it with black ink etches, until the sheet is all covered and there’s no more drawing left. Just a black paper.

So, with my talent I killed my pride: my Narcissus.

The metamorfic process and the sound of the etching were captured in video.

title: Narcissus Elimination

year: 2004

time: 17 min 24 sec

genre: experimental, video art

director: Maria Inês Ferreira

camera: Pedro de Carvalho

country: Portugal

color: color

Arts Collective in Mafra

Roses

FLOWER OF EVIL

“Flor do Mal” – plaster, wood and sisal – variable dimensions

My sulpture in the collective arts exhibition at Jardim do Cerco in Mafra, Portugal.

Photos: Pedro de Carvalho

Self portraits

Me and my Shadow oil pastel on paper

2004

Frontal me aquarelle on paper

2004

Complementary me dry pastel on paper

2004

Color me ink on paper

2004

me graphite on paper

2004

Strasbourg- Art and travel

“The Compass Rose and the times prose”

Drawing intallation in Strasbourg at Artichaud, artistic and cultural cafe.

Artichaud, Café artistique et Culturel, Grand Rue 57, Strasbourg

web page: http://www.lartichaut.fr/

“Le Rose des Vents et la Prose des Temps”