ÂNIA PAIS | Melting Landscapes

The landscape is a physical and spiritual territory/place. The Melting Landscapes project is born from the exploration of the relationship and intersection between Art and Science to be developed in the Ectopia Art Residency/Laboratory of Experimental Art in Lisbon.

Through the means provided by the residency, I intend to carry out an investigation that explores chemical reactions in metal and the various effects that can be obtained. My intention is to create, after long experimentation of the materials, about 4 to 6 pieces that combine my textile work with metal, putting in dialogue and confrontation the form, the movement and the expression. In order to rethink the relationship of the textile landscape with space, with time and with the viewer, this is with the aim of creating an installation with these objects suspended in space. As an action/ reaction to time and space, the experience of the landscape, the experience of the «here and now» through experimentation is the dialogue that takes place in the void of the scene, building a visual and physical communication between the event and the spectator through a corporal writing that makes it mainly presence.