Delicate Nature: Luísa Mota

This exhibitions holds several (mainly collages and sculptures) works initiated from 2011 and finalized this year, 2021. Usually my works permeate for years, in the edges with my studio, used after a performance and left to ‘marinate’ and collect themselves and the memories they retain. Connecting to objects as if reservoirs of energy, or emotions, drives me to further explore my sculptural works, as the pieces rise into shapes and beings, that not longer are just material or medium, but gain ‘mediumship’, i.e. transporting and connecting information from other times and places. Therefore the works are understood as vessels of past memories and my own history of sorts. Often used in ritualistic settings and in choreography they carry visions and information layered over time, from their use in large-scale urban performance works, to intimate studio sessions.