Projects will be developed in the collaborative and dynamic environment that is experienced daily at Taguspark.
MAU – Taguspark Museum of Urban Art and SNBA – National Society of Fine Arts have completed the selection process for the first edition of the MAU-SNBA Artist Residencies.
Among three dozen applications, four artists were chosen who translate the disruptive, bold and urban spirit that defines the City of Knowledge: Beatriz Uva, Elisa Ochoa, Maria Savchenko and Tatyana Cristina.
Beatriz Uva, with a sustainable approach, reuses materials whenever possible, combining painting and collages with elements such as canvas, paper, paints and pens. In the Residency, she intends to create interactive paintings that invite visitors to explore the environment around them, uniting elements of nature with abstract forms.
Elisa Ochoa, inspired by the ethnography of objects, stories and personal archives of places, investigates collective memory and cultural identity in landscape contexts. During the Residency, her mission will be to create a continuous dialogue between the past and present of the maritime coast of the municipality of Oeiras, based on the scientific knowledge that exists from it and the human testimonies found, building a narrative link between the temporal layers of the landscape.
Maria Savchenko combines abstract painting with expressive representational art. In the MAU-SNBA Artist Residency, she aims to develop a visual narrative that stimulates reflections on how objects shape our understanding of space and time.
Tatyana Cristina explores in her painting the duality between restrained and explosive gestures. During the Residency, he will create a series of large-format paintings that investigate the concept of Art and Medicine, reinterpreting and plastically exploring surgical boxes/cases from the nineteenth century, in an innovative and provocative approach.
The MAU-SNBA Artistic Residencies are part of the protocol established between Taguspark and the National Society of Fine Arts, which aims to foster collaboration in art exhibitions and in the development of artistic residencies, courses and workshops in the City of Knowledge.
For Eduardo Baptista Correia, CEO of Taguspark, the initiative reinforces the role of culture in the creative and human development of the Park: “Culture is a basic axis of Taguspark and represents a dynamic project in expansion, which works as a stimulus to the creativity and personal development of all the inhabitants of the Park. Welcoming four artists, identified among 30, to be able to develop their work at the House of Arts & Science is to underline the disruptive, bold and urban spirit that we live daily in this place of brilliant people”.
João Paulo Queiroz, president of the National Society of Fine Arts, highlights the impact of this first edition of the Residencies: “This first edition of MAU-SNBA Artistic Residencies allows us to create opportunities for artists, while reflecting the celebration between art, science and culture, and promoting a space for learning and discovery”.
With this partnership, Taguspark and SNBA consolidate the role of art as a central element in creating an innovative and stimulating environment, promoting interaction between different disciplines and inspiring the City of Knowledge community.
