Chats
During the time that has passed since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, our forced seclusion has kept us away from conviviality and conversation with friends, except through the intermediary of machines and screens.
Trying to recover the memory of the romantic Kissing Bench, so in vogue in other times, these two chairs of difficult or impossible access, evoke that desire to communicate with the other, to talk, to share time, but remains very conditioned and not always possible. The participant is left with the wish that normality returns quickly, and being close is again possible, without restriction.
Specifications
Cristina Ataíde, 2021
Author: Cristina Ataíde
2x (300 x 120 x 120 cm)
Painted Iron
Cristina Ataíde
Born in Viseu, 1951. Lives and works in Lisbon. Graduate Degree in Sculpture from ESBAL, Lisbon, where she also attended the Equipment Design Course. Production director of Sculpture and Design at Made In (Alenquer, Portugal), from 1987 to 1996, where she worked with Anish Kapoor, Michelangelo Pistolleto, Keit Sonnier, Matt Mullican, among others. Guest Teacher at the Lusófona University (Lisbon), from 1997 until 2012. Concerns about nature are one of the constants in Ataíde’s work. The denouncement of ecological crimes, the preservation of nature, and in her last years, the problematics about the refugees, are consistent personal and artistic preoccupations. Exhibiting regularly since 1984, her work is often developed during the artist’s travels, transitioning between sculpture and drawing or through photography and video. Cristina Ataíde is represented by the Galleries: Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon; Magda Bellotti, Madrid; Andrea Rehder, Contemporary Art, São Paulo; Ybakatu, Curitiba, Brazil and The Shed Space, Brooklyn, NYC.
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