Uterus Path

This project is based on creating links with the Cistern of the former Convent of São Francisco, currently the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.
This space, once occupied by water, has a singular presence, both due to its size, the light that penetrates its interior, and the sounds that invade it.
Having the opportunity to be alone inside it made me feel as if I were in a giant maternal Uterus, where the transcendent divine light penetrates the large uterus to generate silhouettes and projections of light that seem to dance throughout the day. The sounds we hear are sounds that remind us of our existence as humans and take us out of a world that transcends us. The marks on the pavement link the connection between interior and exterior, giving the idea of being tombs of bodies that were once generated there and suffered to give way to other creations, whatever they may be.
After this initial period, I created some films, photographs and recreated the model of the interior and exterior surrounding the cistern, to have a closer relationship with the place. As the work progressed, the proximity to the place removed the idea of creation because the Cistern and its aura, in my opinion, were already creation itself for me.
The idea of visualizing the invisible is something I have continually explored in my practice as an artist. Taking this principle, without knowing what to do, I chose to remove myself from the place and deconstruct everything outside of it. I extensively photographed the model and destroyed it to create hypothetical two-dimensional constructions with the different pieces that made it up, photographing all the work to extract as much information as possible from each member body of the Cistern.
I later recreated new proposals for imaginary places with the pieces that made it up and created proposals for two installations, where in one of them I had the need to show the observer the union between the Masculine and the Feminine, through holes in a wall it was possible to visualize the interior of the cistern and the light that penetrated and fertilized it. Another way of showing the observer what I experienced was to create, based on ideas from imaginary models, a screen box, where images and shapes of the study carried out could be visualized.