1. If you were to formulate your current work as questions, what could they be?

As artists, how do/will/can we generate and nurture an ecology of relations and cohabitation in fractured and exhausted territories?

2. What are a few tension points that drive your investigation today? (i.e. empirical, social, political, environmental)

The relation between the social and ecological aspects. Popular ecological knowledge, ancient wisdom that promotes the idea of interconnectedness between all beings.

3. ENVIRONMENT - If we were to depict an Open-Studio, what does the general environment in your studio look like? - What are your main mediums (technical and/or conceptual)

My studio is always full of old pieces and new experimentations, I like these layers overlapping. A lot of elements hanging from the ceiling as I work a lot with the idea of suspension. Materials mainly canes, raw and fired clay, fabrics. Earth tones.

4. PROCESS / STUDIO - What are the actions or routines that fuel your practice? What relationship do you have with your studio?

I really need an obsessive, everyday studio practice in which ideas start to reveal themselves through matter. One action that fuels my practice is using whatever I'm working at the moment and what lays around the space, composing installations in my studio. That is often how pieces come to be.

5. A PIECE - Is there one artwork (in your production) that currently stands out to you? If so, what does it pose?

At the moment I am interested in continuing the line of thought from “ave mãe”, a fabric piece that chromatically indicates a new direction in my work and that has this relation with painting and canvas but at the same time three-dimensional / installation-based aspect; through adaptability to space.

6. MOTIF - Retrospectively; How would you define the motifs of your work — conceptually or plastically.

My impulse to create is almost always triggered by relations: someone tells me a story, a song, an object that is offered to me… This idea of the communal, of relationality is, I would say, the main motif of my work.

7. PERIPHERAL - In the evident context that we are the product of a time, how do you see your work depicting contemporary times?

I feel the urge to connect more with ancestral knowledge and popular wisdom in order to fabulate new possible futures. Art as a “shifting device” from the mechanistic paradigm to an ecological paradigm.

8. IMPACT - What would you like the impact of your work to be?

Deep observation, deep listening and playfulness.

9. An action - that “embodies” or stimulates your work.

Singing.

10. Name an artist “embedded” in practice / research

ORO IRIS aka Laura dos Campos