RED SEES

RED SEES
Gaivotas Em Terra

Francisca Sousa

RED SEES


  • Thursday •
    OPENING
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    Friday-Sunday • -

Booking: Free entrance

Red Sees is an essay on the colour Red, a project that talks about the mastery of bodies and the demonstrations of power, reversing the traditional roles that still pervade in our society. Red reveals the imagery of the male decapitation in order to advocate the end of fear and trauma and to show and to dismantle the fetishism around the sexual organ. The figure of Judith, the one who cuts the head of Holofernes, is reproduced under several characters – one man and women.

This exhibition brings together works that go from painting, to illustration and to the production of objects that tell us about a hidden violence, gender issues and that also advocate an open debate on the importance of sex. Sex itself as a therapy and as an artistic concept; the liberation of the body and of the institutional decency – these are the premises of this exposition.

Born in 1992 (Viseu, Portugal), Francisca Sousa has a Bachelor degree in Painting by the University of Porto and it was during a study program in London, at Central Saint Martins, that she discovered her interest for video, performance art and for the extension of the two- dimensional work. These new interests led to the conclusion of a Master degree in Multimedia Arts at the University of Fine Arts of Lisbon, where she presented the dissertation “Soft Violence – language and metamorphosis”. Through out her practice, Francisca Sousa directs her artistic research towards intimate and social concerns such as violence, the submissive body and its relationship with the art object.