A Home Made by Drawing: Amazonia_Lorenzo Bordonaro

24 JAN > 17 FEB 2020 | CAPELA DA FACULDADE DE BELAS-ARTES DA ULISBOA

Opening Jan 23, 18h00

curated by: Ângela Ferreira

A Home Made by Drawing is an art-research and anthropological long term project exploring the human practice of dwelling, the notions of home and shelter, and the meanings and quandaries of human mobility and identity. The project investigates the dialectic between ideas of home and horizon, openness and closure, finite and infinite that generates a constant, ambiguous and unsolvable movement between contraction and expansion, between staying and leaving. Created by artist and cultural anthropologist Lorenzo Bordonaro, A Home Made by Drawing explores non-static and fluid manners of dwelling that evoke an alternative and nomadic relationship between human beings and their environment, suggesting different and fluid notions of identity and belonging. In Home Made by Drawing, Bordonaro creates symbolic nomadic structures through ephemeral, fragile and impermanent architectures that embody this oscillation between the need to take shelter and the drive to move beyond, between being oneself and becoming other, between the home and the drive to travel.

In this specific installation, Amazonia, part of the wider project A Home Made by Drawing, Bordonaro reworks photographic images and architectural suggestions of his landmark travel to the Amazonian rainforest in 2014.

Bio of the artist at www.bordonaro.eu

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