DIANA MORDIDO AIRES | Fiar o Entorno
2022
Keywords
Proportions | Development | Anatomy | Symmetry | Asymmetry | Dimensions | Diversity | Divergence | Generation | Growth
Synopsis
Soak. Drink. Thrist.
Between the lines of this project, we are absorbed by different narratives. They are selected and blurred by a color palette that reflects on the definition of belonging. Presenting themselves little by little.
Fiar o Entorno (Weave the surroundings) intends to explore the ability of feeling the emptiness of places, while rethinks the continuous transformation of the territory of southwest Alentejo, Portugal. Through a technique that, despite applying or changing the color of a fabric, becomes itself a process of revelation. It reveals the particularities of the place and the relationships woven between them, on a surface sensitized to receive this reality, rekindling the gestural memory of those who build from their surroundings.
Among this tangle of roots, memories and figures are buried. Here they are mapped, washed and exposed, to the light and to time, in a relationship of constant exchange with the surroundings that choose what remains and what fades away.
hat fades away.
Artist Bio
Diana Mordido Aires (Vila Nova de Milfontes, 1997) is specialized in Jewellery, by Escola Secundária Artística António Arroio, studied Painting at Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade de Lisboa (FBAUL) and has a degree in Artistic and Cultural Mediation by Escola Superior da Educação de Lisboas (ESELx). She has worked as a intern and collaborated with different cultural organisations – Atelier Concorde, Casa das Histórias Paula Rego, Cultivamos Cultura, Fundação Eugénio de Almeida – Centro de Arte e Cultura, RHI. It is in these contexts, and in her artistic practice, that she explores interdisciplinarity and the concept of “territory”, by producing discourses, dynamics and activities that aim to bring together different daily lives and languages. She is co-founder and President of the Portuguese Association of Artistic and Cultural Mediation. Since 2019 she has been working with Cultivamos Cultura, where she develops educational projects and is responsible for the collection.
