Madalena Anjos



Um abraço que nos derruba

(A hug that knocks us out)

Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon, 2022.

This exhibition was part of my master thesis with the same name.



Fullfilled, 2022. Oil, acrylic, charcoal, glue and markers on paper. 170 x 300 cm. 

 

Exhibition view 1. 





Views of the installation, 2022. It includes drawings, paintings, fragments of both, sketchbooks, collected images, cutouts collections, my personal atlas and mind-maps, doodles, photographs I bought, found paraphernalia, trash, etc.

It’s an extension of the artistic process, the stuff, images and thoughts that are behind the project as a whole. Fragments left behind after making some choices, that can always turn into a choice themselves. Also an exercise for myself - the time spent watching and selecting each image, fragment or object. The show as a part of the process of creation and thinking, as means of production, processing and building. Additive method, as if all those real and palpable images had travelled to a virtual life in a image thesaurus software, and now they are back into a physical reality.







Exhibition view 2.

 


Exhibition view 3. Part of the series of A4 drawings. 




Untitled, 2020. Enamel and oil on paper. 42 x 59,4 cm.