Patrícia Pinheiro de Sousa is a visual artist and filmmaker based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
She works with multiple mediums and disciplines, such as video, text-based works, performance, sound and self-published books.
Her work users fictional elements and everyday life, in combination with her own writing, recorded voice and subtle subversiveness. The artist’s latest films are often experimental, presented as short documentaries where archive and historical material is intertwined with fictional elements.
Future Prospects III - Future prospects is a collage project that mimics a simulation, a future vision of fragmented landscapes caused by mining activities and disrupted economies. It brings the idea of a prospection - as a look into the future as one digs through millions of years of mineral deposits - together with the volatility of the presentation of the data itself, and how it can be misread, misinterpreted, reversed. It is based on a study of mining and how prospecting is often done to determine and analyze which of the different types of minerals in a given area are worth exploiting.
Future Prospects II - Future prospects is een collageproject dat een simulatie, een toekomstvisie op gefragmenteerde landschappen door mijnbouwactiviteiten en verstoorde economieën nabootst. Het brengt het idee van een prospectie - als een blik in de toekomst terwijl men zich door miljoenen jaren van minerale afzettingen heen graaft - samen met de volatiliteit van de presentatie van de gegevens zelf, en hoe deze verkeerd kunnen worden gelezen, verkeerd geïnterpreteerd, omgedraaid.
As Heavy as Gold - A fictional documentary that brings together the extraction of tungsten in Portugal in the 40s and DIY investment schemes such as cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, intertwining it with a fictional reading of archival documents.
It suggests a future landscape of abandoned cryptocurrencies and algorithmic financial projects, while navigating through abandoned wolfram mining landscapes in Portugal and former bank buildings in Rotterdam. Furthermore, it leaves a question: – how do algorithms handle fiction and archival scarcity when used to filter out historical moments?
This project was kindly supported by:
→ O&O subsidy CBK Rotterdam (Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam).
→ Stichting Bekker-la Bastide Fonds
Future Prospects - Future prospects is een collageproject dat een simulatie, een toekomstvisie op gefragmenteerde landschappen door mijnbouwactiviteiten en verstoorde economieën nabootst. Het brengt het idee van een prospectie - als een blik in de toekomst terwijl men zich door miljoenen jaren van minerale afzettingen heen graaft - samen met de volatiliteit van de presentatie van de gegevens zelf, en hoe deze verkeerd kunnen worden gelezen, verkeerd geïnterpreteerd, omgedraaid.
Subnautica - The short video is a fictional story where ocean mining, deep ocean creatures, lithium and a new blue pigment – the Ultra Atlantic blue- are the protagonists. It is an invitation to dive into the geopolitics of the underground and its multiple temporalities through the voice of an imaginary expert.
New Stories from the South - The film presents a fictional story about the landscape of the Southern Lands, with the cork oak tree and the solar panel as central elements. It describes a fictional journey where science, belief and value, appear intertwined by the narrator’s voice.
New Stories From the South portrays the ‘south’ in an uncertain time and space, or in a semiconscious state, in the aftermath of the European economic crisis.
This project was kindly supported by:
→ O&O subsidy CBK Rotterdam (Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam).
