Maria José Oliveira
LABYRINTH
curated by Rita Anuar and Tânia Geiroto Marcelino.
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𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶: 19 nov || Sat | 16H-20H
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© Eduardo Sousa Ribeiro
Labyrinth also leads us to the interior of ourselves, to a kind of hidden sanctuary in which the most mysterious of the human person resides. The transformation of the ‘I’ that operates at the center of the labyrinth and that will assert itself in the light of day, upon return, of the passage from darkness to light, will mark the victory of the spiritual over the material — of the eternal over the perishable, of intelligence over instinct, of knowledge over blind clairvoyance — door to another life. It is the cretan palace of Minos, where the Minotaur resided, from which Theseus only managed to get out with the help of Ariadne’s thread. The purpose is to discover the route that leads you to the center of this aracnhe’s web…
MJO.
Maria José Oliveira (n. 1943, Lisbon), lives and works in Lisbon.
From 1967 onwards, she began her research on floor ovens in Ribolhos, in the region of Viseu, with Mestre Albino, one of the last archaic potters. Between 1973 and 1976, she attended the Ceramics course at IADE, and in 1978 she attends the sculpture course at AR.CO. Maria José Oliveira was a guest professor at the Ceramics Department at Ar.Co from 1991 to 1997.
Maria José Oliveira has been exhibiting her work since the eighties, in Portugal and abroad, including her work in the field of contemporary jewellery. In 2009, MJO. made the props and costumes for the opera “The Brother in Love” by Pergolesi at the CCB.
Some of her solo exhibitions include: “Dimensões – da Vida e da Terra”, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon (1999); “A Geometria do Tempo”, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon (2007); “Cone de Sombra. Linha de Luz”, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon (2010); “Construção”, giefarte, Lisbon (2014); “Actualidade do Ovo e da Galinha”, Galeria Diferença, Lisbon (2016); “Maria José Oliveira – 40 anos de Trabalho”, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, Lisbon (2017); “Estamos aqui porque voámos”, Museu Municipal de Faro (2021); “A invenção dum outro”, Museu Rainha Dona Leonor, Beja (2022).