ROOM 4
Atmospheric Diary
“Atmospheric” is the property of that
which is gaseous or which expresses
the concept of steam.
Over recent months, in
which the pandemic has heightened our alertness about the
world, Virgínia Mota (Matosinhos,
1976) opened up notebooks in
which she painted images and
then posted the contents of the
pages on her Instagram account.
Day by day, we saw the emergence of new worlds and ways of
seeing worlds, through her coloured and round images.
Mountains,
rivers, vegetation, clouds, rain,
sea… an infinite conjugation of
verbs, memories and affections.
In the museum, the experience of the respective images
takes the form of a diary that is
distributed on the horizontal plane
of the shelves, thereby accentuating a continuum between the time
of the exhibition and that of the
experience. In this manner, each
page of this diary awakens the appearance of a form, and each form
freely inspires the imagination.
To divert attention to the
atmosphere, the clouds and
the gaseous state of affairs in
the world is, in fact, a kind of
pedagogical approach where
interpretation is superseded
by the undisciplined activity of
daydreaming and wandering.
FOR ALL AGES
Virginia Mota Artist and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, of the University of Minho, Virgínia Mota (Matosinhos, 1976) has developed collective artistic processes as a form of expression and thought between different languages and transdisciplinary projects in schools, universities and museums since 2007. Her principal projects include the Library of Affections (MAC-Niterói) and the Ateliê Nômade (MAR, Ouro Preto and Mariana Winter Festival). She was the co-coordinator of educational projects at the Education and Art Experimental Unit, of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro. She writes poetry and essays on art and philosophy. She is also dedicated to painting and drawing. She has held several solo and group exhibitions. She won the “Writing Residence” Award from the Teatro do Silêncio.
Fotography Daniel Malhão
FOR ALL AGES
Virginia Mota Artist and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, of the University of Minho, Virgínia Mota (Matosinhos, 1976) has developed collective artistic processes as a form of expression and thought between different languages and transdisciplinary projects in schools, universities and museums since 2007. Her principal projects include the Library of Affections (MAC-Niterói) and the Ateliê Nômade (MAR, Ouro Preto and Mariana Winter Festival). She was the co-coordinator of educational projects at the Education and Art Experimental Unit, of the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro. She writes poetry and essays on art and philosophy. She is also dedicated to painting and drawing. She has held several solo and group exhibitions. She won the “Writing Residence” Award from the Teatro do Silêncio.
Fotography Daniel Malhão
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