Getting accustomed - April at Pada studios in Barreiro, Portugal

Here are some extracts of the first month of my residency at Pada studios in April 2025.

I have explored over two months interactions between body, space, time and materials in search for language. It was a durational experimental and performative process work.

Over two months, I have worked with site specific materials, found objects, paper, ink, tape, photography, video and pre-made impacts in the space. I moved my drawing practice in new fields and used documentation as on-going feeding material, exploring the construction of /engagement with an evolutive ecosystem. What is important for me in such a project is the idea of active space, body, time and materials, the notion of duration, the attunement to inner-rhythms and the permeability to what surrounds. 

Pada studios are situated in an old Jute factory in the middle of post-industrial park.

One of the thought-starters was making through unmaking.