Final Show MA Fine Art

  • Ana Carolina Rodrigues
My practice meditates on the act of artistic creation, transforming the matter and finding its unimaginable and indelible nature. The material embodied the subject but do not incorporate it. Create something from the matter, that occupies space and time, enables me to experience new possibilities. Being here and Matter, both from 2015 and made of pigment and wood, highlight this transformation: the gesture excavate a dark matter, opening a new surface of light which was previously filled by density and opacity. In this transformation lies the attempt of a new origin.
The pigment, this real and light substance, able to fluctuate in the air, constitutes, here, the matter which cannot fuse or identify with the imagined absence, but en- ables the possibility to accept the lost.
Many of my works yield to the autonomous properties of its substance – the work Convulsion II, made by the ultramarine blue pigment – is an attempt to isolate the object and to be conscious about its origins and its contexts. It also recalls the slow destruction process of time, suggesting a latent constant potential for material disappearance.
These objects represent an urge for creating towards an expansion of life and they are essentially about the physicality in itself and the importance of the solid existence.