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Audience Award at FUSO Festival

with the video ‘I’m the drawing, you’re the reality’

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wall of fameblack and white  ink jet print 90,5  x 345 cm 2011  This work is a satire about all the motivation letters and CVs that you send to find a job.As a new artist / adult, I saw myself fighting with motivation letters and different CVs for different applications.After sending an impressive number of them, by accident I saw myself in front of A3 CVs showing my face and my more than normal CV in huge proportions.  After that confrontation I decided to create a wall of fame, worthy of the best motivation letters. It is also a way of showing “my motivation” for those motivation letters. One work less about my interior and more about what we need to prove to others. We need to convince them that we are good, that we are ready, that we are just perfect. Is still a work in progress.
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white offering colour lambda-print 72,25 x 108,37 cm 2011  In the moment the flowers are cut and put in a jar are dead. Even dead they are beautiful and we use them to pleased someone we like, to show respect…to apologize.We use them as an object of affection but can we be object of affection to the flower?It’s a work about objects personalizing persons and persons turning into objects. I’m the water to the plant, I’m the support of its dead.
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shared home I81 x 82 x 85 cm sofa and living plant 2005
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Fruta de época – a refeição colour lambda-print 64 x 42 cm 2011    (this description is also from the work Fruta da época - seasonal meal) This work is about crisis. I’m Portuguese, I live in Holland, and we live all in a global media situation. I’m Portuguese and Portuguese people ‘are starving’. ‘Starving’ for help, for a new beginning and essentially, ‘starving’ for having a voice. I’m living in Holland, and in Holland, we artists are now fighting to ‘save’ the culture. We want to save institutions, ‘save’ the culture help and support, to ‘save’ us. Based on the ‘Dutch famine of 1944’, this work is a allegory about the crisis’ situation. During the Hongerwinter (“Hunger winter”) the Dutch people saw themselves without anything to eat, without electricity and gas, being many time obliged to eat tulip bolbs and sugar beets, as last resource of any calories. Inspired in this terrible story, this video is a reinterpretation of that historic moment. Fruta da época – seasonal fruit is a capture of the process of boil a branch of flowers. The process of boiling and the time that takes to the flower ‘be ready’ is the timeline of the movie. The reflection on the pan denounces some daily activity going on in the kitchen. The wood spoon, and the ‘non-treatment’ of the image are also part of the concept – showing the banality of preparing a meal. Everything is saved, from the water we receive thee, from the flower the meal. The result of this video was also a second work – a picture of the ‘flowers meal’.
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