RESEARCH | INSTALLATION

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TITLE: “NO-GO ZONES”

YEAR: 2023 

MATERIAL USED: CLAY FROM ALCOBAÇA

TECHNIQUES: 3D PRINTING

DIMENSIONS: 12 BRICK 

EXHIBITION:  "SOL DE POUCA DURA" - OFICINAS DO CONVENTO, MONTEMOR-O-NOVO

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“NO-GO ZONES” PROPOSES A TERRITORIAL SELF-RECOGNITION PROBLEMATIZED BY THE ANTHROPY OF INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY. THIS COMES FROM AN ARCHIVAL PROJECT CARRIED OUT FOR 1 MONTH IN WHICH AERIAL IMAGES AND LOCATION COORDINATES WERE DOCUMENTED ACCORDING TO A GLOBAL ANALYSIS OF A SCALE OF CONTAMINATION AND AIR QUALITY, WHICH RANGED FROM GREEN TO INSALUBRIOUS ORANGES AND REDS. THE WORK THUS SUGGESTS A LINK BETWEEN THE NOTION OF PLACE COMMITMENT, AS A GEOGRAPHICAL REGION WHERE ENTRY FOR OUTSIDERS IS PHYSICALLY RESTRICTED OR POSES POTENTIAL RISKS, AND THE CONCEPT OF WILDERNESS IN THE FACE OF THESE UNINHABITABLE, UNPOPULATED, AND UNDOMESTIC SPACES IN THAT THESE HOUSING EXODUSES OCCUR TOWARDS MEGALOPOLISES AND THE USE OF TECHNOLOGIES AS PROSTHESES FOR HUMAN SETTLEMENTS. THIS SERIES OF OBJECTS MADE OF DIRT THEREFORE SEEKS AN AWARENESS OF THE PLACE AS AN ETIOLOGICAL TREATMENT OF THE TERRITORY, EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN NATURAL MATTER AND ARTIFICIAL MACHINE, ASSUMING THE ERROR OF MECHANICAL AUTOMATISM AS PART OF THE PROCESS OF ALIENATION FROM NATURE.