EXIST/RESIST by Didier Fiúza Faustino
MAAT (Museum of Artwork, Structure and Know-how) hosts EXIST/RESIST, a retrospective of Didier Fiuza Faustinothe thirty years of observe. Designed by AL_A/ Amanda Levete Architects, the museum is positioned on the riverfront in Lisbon’s historic Belém district. Inside, the gallery brings collectively an enormous collection of works, supplies and prototypes, together with drawings, images, fashions, large-scale installations and visible acoustics. This in depth area of labor of the Franco-Portuguese experimentalist unfolds round 4 fundamental branches of analysis: Dwellings and Dwellings, Boundaries of Our bodies, Design as Resistance, Agonism and Antagonism in Public Area.
Organized by Pelin Tan, the exhibition takes its title from two items (Exist, 2016; Resist, 2017) intertwined, inviting guests into an experiential area with works that blur the formal boundaries between structure, design and artwork.
“The exhibition reveals a propulsive rigidity current all through Faustino’s inventive explorations and its continued resonance within the face of the annoying circumstances of bodily and psychological survival in at the moment’s world.” states the press launch. ‘Whether or not it takes the type of installations, movies, sculptures, editorial tasks, momentary architectures or constructed works, the ‘physique’ there emerges as a recurring trope and measure of individuation, and as such an financial and political web site of battle. ‘courtesy of the EDP Basis, maat. all photographs by Bruno Lopes until in any other case famous
a sensory area of free formations
The present brings collectively previous and newly created works in a scenography designed by Faustino’s studio – Mésarchitecture (see extra Right here). Conceptual-wise it’s developed to create a dialogue between the 2 core areas of the museum and thus to create two distinctive spatial experiences.
“Within the iconic oval gallery, the large-scale construction rising on its axis is an analog information heart, an inverted panoptic white room and a TAZ (momentary autonomous zone) introduced as an ex-nihilo of the artist-architect studio, which homes the principle physique of labor on this mid-career retrospective.
Adjoining to this construction is the newly created set up referred to as “Transportable Democracy”. [Mobile Democracy]a radical proposal which “invitations the viewers to confront the probabilities and weaknesses of being an viewers, which can turn into the stage for a collection of occasions, shows and performances all through the length of the present.”
The second space is developed as a performative area for the general public “to interact in Faustino’s creative and design pondering. Guests are introduced with a spatial and sensory atmosphere of free formations, a labyrinth constructed by integrating reissued items.’