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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Marta Soares Untitled VIII Marta Soares Untitled VIII

Marta Soares

Untitled VIII, 2018
Mixed media on canvas
225 x 300 cm
The title of this exhibition, Paintings torn from the Night, contains a triad of words that form the ontology of the works shown here. They are unquestionably paintings, although the...
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The title of this exhibition, Paintings torn from the Night, contains a triad of words that form the ontology of the works shown here. They are unquestionably paintings, although the set of actions that ultimately leads to them has an eminently performative quality. This, however, does not jeopardise their medial status. These paintings – or at least the canvasses that originate them – are literally torn from the walls on which they are laid by the artist (although, of course, both the canvases and the walls are subject to prior intervention). Despite the fact that this succession of actions takes place at different times, it is at night – that transgressive time – when Marta Soares torn them from the walls. The entire work is transgressive. To begin with, the artist uses walls that are outside, in the public space, appropriating previous interventions, many of which are practically invisible and more often than not apocryphal (except for the tags). The canvases are torn off mostly at night, away from strangers’ eyes. The very method- ology is alien to the pictorial tradition of a common way of painting that inhabits the collective imagination.

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2018 Pinturas Arrancadas à Noite, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon

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