Rui Mota
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto
Rui Mota (1997), natural de Matosinhos, vive e trabalha atualmente no Porto. Foca, desde 2018, as suas investigações, práticas e teóricas, no caráter ineliminável da arte. Usando a escultura como disciplina predileta, apura a expansão da arte além dos limites físicos do objeto por meio de reflecções inerentes ao espaço, tempo e público. Licenciado e Mestre em Artes plásticas, com especialização em escultura pela Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto, onde trabalha como Docente Assistente Convidado e onde brevemente trabalhará pelo grau de doutor. Expõe com frequência desde 2018, tanto individualmente, como membro integrante do coletivo Lab.25 que, em 2019, ajudou a fundar e através do qual procura potenciar reflexão e discussão sobre a condição contemporânea da cidade.
Thesis title
Ineliminable: The role of the exhibition circumstances in the (in)completeness of contemporary Sculpture
FCT reference
2022.11779.BD
Abstract
“Ineliminable” assumes the relationship between the object and its physical surroundings as an indispensable link, determinant for Sculpture. Something that carves the work and its experience at the indivisible intersection between figure and background – object and context. Their interinfluence, reframed as interdependence, is questioned with the aim to anticipate, take precaution and, above all, integrate into sculpture the transformative potential of the circumstances in which a given artistic object is presented. The theme is problematized through authorial work and referential artistic-scientific production. A tripartite structure follows, organized according to the author’s subjective experience between the roles of artist, curator and witness (spectator), investigating the impact of context – space, time and public – on artistic practice and experience. Methods of clear communication between the object and its surroundings are evaluated, in the search and production of so-called extroverted objects, which in this extroversion adapt to changes between contexts, through spatial, temporal and participatory approaches. In this way, the artistic object is thought of as a term in relationship (and not an isolated protagonist) expanding art beyond its physical limits – an Initiative centered on the task of assuming what cannot be excluded.
Supervision
Filipa Cruz
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