writings
texts
landscape, impregnated body
a rhetoric of camouflage, for father
the body that became body with you stays with you
can dormant seeds bloom?
books
of flesh and terra
design by Rosa Francisco
of flesh and terra is a set of letters that weave the poetic with the discursive. in these letters, i use my voice, but also the imagined perspectives and voices of a great-great-grandmother and of the terra (soil) i collected in the places this ancestor inhibited. of flesh and terra describes a search for psychological belonging motivated by a discovery of genetic belonging. i construct memories and imagine remembrance and, while doing so, ponder on ideas of belonging and on the roles of memory and imagination in the state of being in. i also reflect on the phenomenological possibilities afforded by being and feeling with matter and on the roles of images and image-making in the construction of the sense of belonging. in of flesh and terra, i borrow knowledge from new materialism, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, and visual studies. i also appropriate pieces of portuguese oral tradition and poetry.
of flesh and terra was selected for the Matter does Matter exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art The Hague and chosen by TENT Rotterdam to be sold alongside the exhibitions WHERE THE RIVER IS and WASTELAND: OUT OF PLACE.
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