some-no-where #2

Studies about time and perhaps light. (April, 2023) I’m developing images of what was already seen and captured, unseen for a second, then recaptured in a new form of light. This possible never-ending process of making images depends solely on things I am looking after. (Still not a clue on what are them.) Whatever I’m working on, can only be justified as being my own process to reach some other thoughts and reasons. So I feel in this mid-air moment where the images do not come out fully developed, nor they do not exist yet, because they do since the moment I archived them for later in life. They’re not blooming yet, nor anymore.

some-no-where

Studies about time and perhaps light. (March, 2024) Among self-founded works, these studies emerge out of some-no-where. Sometimes I wish someone would explain to me what the hell I’m working on. Then I keep working on it until I get bored or distracted by something else. Whenever the readings that follow these studies lead me through the same path, a kind of grounded work seems to emerge, but they are mainly a way of keeping my mind distracted from what I have had already set out to do, years before, which is why I call them studies or essays. Nothing new, I guess, for most of us who seem to be doing something to prove ourselves in this ticking clock. But don’t take this lightly, I can never do that anyway, as these images seem to come from somewhere where I didn’t want to be revealed and yet I obey and do them.

“Ne Touche Pas”, IN HER HANDS expo, Antwerp

IN HER HANDS exhibition is moving towards Antwerp, Belgium.

Curated by Ellen Wezenbeek
presenting the work of 5 female artists:
Katrien Orlans // Ayla Castelein // Ann Bevers // Mariana Castro // Ilse Pierard

Opening /// Sunday 24th of March during Artland Antwerp 2024 – 11 am – 6 pm

24 March – 19 May 2024
At Remy Wezenbeek | @ukkelberrifun
Kattendijkdok – Westkaai 71 Antwerp, Belgium

Ne Touche Pas, Mariana Castro – exposição “Arte no Feminino”

«Arte no Feminino – 10 Anos, 10 Artistas»

Exposição cuja inauguração assinalou o Dia Internacional da Mulher, a 8 de março de 2024, com obras de 10 artistas: Ana Bonifácio, Ana Lima-Netto, Ana Margarida Matos, Ângela Ferreira, Isabel Sabino, Mariana Castro, Marta Soares, Paula Rego, Vanessa Barragão, Virgínia Fróis.

Curadoria de José Manuel Simões, Comissário para as Comemorações dos (723+) 10 Anos da ULisboa. Esta exposição integra o programa de comemorações dos 10 anos da ULisboa. 

8 mar – 31 maio 2024

2.ª a 6ª-feira, das 10h às 18h

Reitoria da Universidade de Lisboa

Entrada Livre

^{fotografias da inauguração – Ana Luísa Valdeira, 8 mar. 2024}

“Ne Touche Pas”, IN HER HANDS expo, Ostend

IN HER HANDS exhibition in Ostend, Belgium

@ukkelberrifun moves towards Ostend, in a co-production with @ahwnn.gallery and presenting the work of 11 female artists:
Joke Van Canneyt // Katrien Orlans // Ayla Castelein // Ann Bevers // Mariana Castro // Ilse Pierard // Sophie Pillen // Sonia Aniceto // lana Sholenbakh // Wilma Kun // Yasmine Akondo

Curated by Ellen Wezenbeek
Opening /// December 22^nd

22 Dec – 4 Feb 2024
AHWNN Gallery
Leopold 1 Plein, 1 – 8400 Oostende, Belgium