Liminal Flesh

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Please scan the QR code, enter the garden, and activate the experience while by the lake. Viewing conditions subject to the garden's schedule and availability.

Synopsis

'Liminal Flesh' proposes the transfer of generative drawing methods to digital language, informing this process with the physical properties and behaviour of materials. The direct participation of the body is replaced by instructions that operate digital tools; the gesture is coded, transformed and multiplied through generative systems, promoting the continuous modification of a shapeless and rugged mass.

This mutating matter — which simultaneously holds the foundation of gesture and the density of volcanic rock or the viscosity of fresh paint — dialogues with a second entity here: a slender, rigid, metallic form that runs through it like a skeletal structure supporting muscles in disarray. Through augmented reality, "Liminal Flesh" manifests itself as a suspended presence, inscribing itself in the space of the Jardim de São Lázaro without attaching itself to it. The garden, traditionally associated with contemplation and natural regency, is reprogrammed here as the stage for an unstable apparition, where the senses are called upon to renegotiate their own parameters of perception.

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Biography

Vera Mota (1982, Porto) has a degree in Plastic Arts — Sculpture (2000-2005) and a master's degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices (2006-2008) from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Her artistic practice is revealed mainly through sculpture, drawing and performance. With regular public presentations since 2003, her work calls for a strong material component, while affirming the body as an indispensable agent. As part of exhibitions and performance programmes, her work has been presented at the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves (Porto, Portugal), Galeria Municipal do Porto (Porto, Portugal); MACE — Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (Elvas, Portugal); Matadero (Madrid, Spain); SESC (São Paulo, Brazil), among others.

How to get there

At the entrance to Jardim de São Lázaro on the corner of Praça dos Poveiros and Passeio de São Lázaro, find the totem stand installed to the right of the gate.