Rita de Almeida Martins
Twenty Five with Twenty Five, Fifty
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“My idea of what a jar might be, reinventing it as a product of my imagination.”
The challenge of the liberation of the conscious mind over the unconscious recognition of the material culture. Based on this idea, is created a collection of fifty pieces that connect the rational world of design products and the imaginary world of narrative tales. Each piece represents a parallel world to our actions, whose complexity is expressed in the diversity of forms.
This collection appears as freedom to create experimental objects without having to deal with the constraints of market and production logic. Presents a new projection strategy, defined by the author, pushing the boundaries of the field and emphasising the role of an attentive and speculative observation over the objects’s function and presence.
(1993, PT)
As product designer, she is interested in exploring and perceiving the place that objects occupy in the processes of construction of our lives and it is in this relationship, that she see beauty and inspiration to design. In her work process uses narrative as strategy in the objects construction and seeks innovation through careful observation oftheir context. She has a strong passion for ceramic, likes particularly working with this material due to the qualities as a communication interface. Graduated in Industrial Design by ESAD.CR (2014), accomplish the Master in Product Design (2018), in the same institution, with the project twenty-five wiht twenty-five, fifty. Alongside her studies, she made several formations mostly on ceramics, wich enable her to work independently on her projects. She lived in Wroclaw (Poland),where she did a course in criative ceramics at the ASP.WROC and participated in several artistic host events for the European Capital of Culture 2016, who was the city of Wroclaw one of the chosen ones that year. In 2017, joined Vícara designer’s team, with the pieces set Leonor. She interned Vista Alegre and then was invited to extend her professional internship at the Bordallo Pinheiro Faience Factory. Before returning to Lisbon, she developed her work in an atelier, shared with two ceramists, in Caldas da Rainha. Hands-on designer, currently combines her activity as a product designer in production positions and exhibition assistance.