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Priscila Fernandes

video , schilderen , Publicatie , internationaal , installatie , fotografie , Conceptueel , Artistiek onderzoek , Analytisch

Priscila Fernandes (1981, Portugal) is a visual artist whose practice is rooted in an ongoing research into education, play, and the dialectics of work and leisure. She works in a broad range of media: from video installation, painting, photography and publications. She is the co-head of BEAR - Base for Experiment, Art and Research - at ArtEZ, Arnhem. She was a resident artist at Künstlerhaus Bethanien in Berlin, IAPSIS Stockholm and at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Her work has been exhibited widely. Recent exhibitions include "Live Uncertainty", 32nd São Paulo Biennial with the installation "Cuckoo Land and Other Futures"; "The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School" at Foundation Joan Miró, Barcelona; Back to the sandbox: Art and Radical Pedagogy, Reykjavik Art Museum; "Playgrounds", Museum Reina Sofia; "Those bastards in caps ...", TENT, Rotterdam. Priscila is the winner of Brutus Award (AVL Mundo, 2018) and EDP Novos Artistas (2011).

Labour Series - With the introduction in the early 20th century of the first paid holidays, a new economy of leisure was born. Train companies offered discount tickets with significant reductions for the third class, youth hostels appear, campsites, spas and resorts. This allowed a growth of the consumer industry to fulfill such activities: beach accessories, tents, recreational toys such as roller-skates, artificial ski slopes, the suburban swimming pool, the personal trainer, open air cinemas, holiday packages, playgrounds and city parks . It is my belief that the introduction of this culture of leisure into the fabric of our working lives created a new perceptional and sensorial experience. To test this out, I've started sketching a correlation between the developments of leisure activities in the 20th century with the different movements of Abstract Art. In these chronologies that I'm developing, interesting coincidences start to emerge, such as between the American invention of roller skates in the 60's and Abstract Expressionism; or even the first inflatable swimming pools with the Anthropoometries performances by Yves Klein. Through these correlations, I've been setting up situations in which I can engage in some of the leisure activities in order to make large scale paintings, such as by roller-skating, swimming from pool to pool, relaxing on a hammock, or learning how to ski. These situations are then photographed and integrate the ongoing project entitled Labor Series. This project is made possible thanks to Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds and Creative Tourism.
Make it Bounce - Duchamp is a frog that has lost the ability to jump. Mondrian is a snake that gives yoga classes. John Cage is a mouse that plays chess and is devoted to mushroom foraging. A yoga studio, a video, and a chronology that relates abstract art to leisure. In this exhibition, mushrooms become musical instruments, the stones on a wall are piano keys, butterflies are born from books. Priscila Fernandes moves in multiple directions. She tells us a story by analogies and uses juxtaposition to create a transitory world where an alternative history is sketched out. Priscila Fernandes plays with modern art myths, entertainment, and the desire to create without restrictions, with a jump that pulls us out of indifference. Produced with the kind support of Sismógrafo, Stichting Droom en Daad and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Make it Bounce

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Locatie: Sismógrafo

ismógrafo presents “Make it Bounce”, the latest video work by Priscila Fernandes. Inspired by Dutch children's television programs, “Make it Bounce” explores the relationship between leisure inventions and the history of modern art.

https://www.sismografo.org/en/programme/make-it-bounce/

Leisure School

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Locatie: Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães
In samenwerking met: ArtWorks, CIAJG

Leisure School presents, for the first time, in Portugal an important body of work by the artist Priscila Fernandes (1981) in which she invites us to reflect on leisure. Specifically designed for the CIAJG, the exhibition covers her recent series - "Never Touch the Ground" (2020), "Labour Series" (2018-2020) and "Free. To do Whatever We" (2018).

https://www.ciajg.pt/en/detail-eventos/20211002-sala-9-10-11-escola-de-lazer-priscila-fernandes/

Never Touch the Ground

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Locatie: Maat Museum (extended)
https://ext.maat.pt/cinema/never-touch-ground

SO Lazy

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Locatie: Caixa Forum
https://caixaforum.org/es/barcelona/p/so-lazy-elogio-del-derroche_a9389441

Happier than a Seagull with a French Fry

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Locatie: Hotel Maria Kapel

What is the connection between rollerblading and modernism? Or the link between paddle pools and capitalism? Between tanning and productivity? In her ongoing work Labor Series Priscila Fernandes humorously explores the relationships between leisure, work and abstract art. In a series of staged situations, the artist uses her body as a tool to create large scale photographs that build correlations between play, idleness, abstract art and hard work.

http://hotelmariakapel.nl/2020/06/16/happier-than-a-seagull-with-a-french-fry/
The Waterslide of Abstract Art
Priscila Fernandes The Waterslide of Abstract Art