Profeta by Luisa Mota

From the lids one dream

Curated by Cristina Ramos

September 14 – October 6, 2022

Luisa Mota

Profeta, 2020

HD video and sound. Duration: 17:25 min

Shake shake shake.
A shaking dream takes you five thousand feet under your body.

We stayed up all night trying to figure out how to go deeper inside a doodling mind. How to place an I alive in a world of vibrant matter.

The unconscious moves through geological time.

Luisa Mota (Porto, 1984), where she currently lives and works. Her work spans different formats, in particular performance, photography, sculpture and video. It addresses topics related to religious and cultural belief systems and stigmas, in an analysis of human conditioning through energetic, psychological and behavioral contents. Based on this research, the artist develops a series of works and recurring characters that inhabit her site-specific performances and installations, such as the Crystal Beings (aka Invisible Beings) which refer to the most spiritual aspect of being, and the Old Ladies, who are an Oracle. The artist makes no distinction between her sculptures and her documentation that must be understood as a whole, anthropological records and artefacts.

Her recent projects include the performance “Genesis and Gênis”, III Bienal da Bahia, 2014; ‘Perception is Wild II’, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, 2014; The solo exhibition ‘Os Outros Homens’ and ‘Delicate Nature/Cosmic Money Healers’, both at Galeria Nuno Centeno, in Porto, 2020 and 2021 respectively; and the performance ‘I believe in good things coming’, at Centro José de Guimarães International, in Guimarães, curated by Marta Mestre, 2022.

Luisa Mota, Profeta, 2020, HD video and sound. Duration: 17:25 min