Conceição Abreu
Location
Oeiras, Portugal
Preferred artistic medium
Contemporary, Drawing, Installation Art, Performance, Photography, Sculpture, Textile & Fibre Art
Art level career
Mid career
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Artist statement
I understand my work as a praxis space. In the interstices of textiles, sculpture, performance, photography and video, I draw paths (trajectories) and geographies. My practice is structured by repetitive gestures and body movements, in a process that becomes almost meditative, but at the same time, it is open to new organizations. Far from the idea that the routine of everyday experience is monotony, the systematization in repetition has, in my work, an aesthetic role of poetic virtue (poiese).
I understand repetitive movement as a territorial movement. A practice that generate relationships between body and space, in dynamics established between interiority and exteriority, present and memory. Organized in a haptic field, tactile and kinesthetic, those relationships acquire, during the practice, shape and visibility through threads and lines, elements that I inscribe, superimpose and intertwine as drawings - objects and images, understood as geographies of those interconnections that arose of an experience of searching for a global sense of place, which in expository time takes the form of exhibition or performance.