Carlota Borges Lloret / Portugal

Conversations with Space challenging the Frame: During the process, what influences the most an art work is its own limitations. A Frame and a Room, or a Plan and a Space reminds us the limitation of our condition. Even the materials that are accessible to us. I’m not interested anymore in filling the pictorial surface, but to express that surface in a living space. In this way by exploring materials, plans and geography, it’s no longer important the problems of form, but the limits and how they destroy themselves and disappear.

 

Marta Da Silva / Portugal

As long as I can remember that I have been fighting with the boundaries of space as found in painting and drawing, needing either to reduce or to expand them. It became evident that this concern was, above all, connected with the emotional boundaries of man and his own relation to space. So, my main medium could no longer be ink but the body as a way of action. That feeling trapped, isolated, alone, meticulously wanders through space in search of freedom. At last, the body vanishes and emptiness overcomes. Remains in the place only a memory of a series of deliberate gestures that led to that action, place and circumstances.”

 

Guida Miranda / Portugal

How to be Inside in the Outside. Framing, Being Framed, Destroying Frame, now everything can be possible, so the main thing we should have in mind is where to go, and then what, and then how to do it. That will bring a process which is always unique. An outsider breaks into the space of a small structure, an area, a town, a building, a room or a corner. How would he enter? How would he approach it? Would he have to break the borders that composed him before? Would he leave traces or just take them with him? Which is his position?

 

Anastasia Palii / Moldova

Social practice: What makes us vulnerable also limits us. I have noticed that people feel locked in public space and only then when it turns into a «mass» they explore it together. To destroy the boundaries that insulates us, we must create a common one, but first of all to know each other. During my studies I was challenged to express through art a virtual space in which people, despite their diversity create relationships, draw attention to social ills and perceive each others an «alter ego». I am curious how people swing spiritually from a state to another getting to merge in a single one. This is the social environment, my working place, and I am looking for conditions that produce different types of masses and improve their mutual understanding. One of the methods that I use is the dialogue and as instrument the text.

 

Janine Leger / South Africa

Framing is something that exists in art both in its physical presence and in the way society try relate works to something they understand. We cannot escape framing when we create something physical, but we can transcend it. In creating work that is defined by a space does not restrict its characteristics existing far beyond the bounds it is created in. In this sense a work can break the constrictions of its borders. Not only can work transcend these restrictions but so can the way art is made. By creating spaces and communities for artists to collaborate in and build off each other’s works as a social practice, art making can defy the restricting boundaries that define art making. I use frames in my work to ground the space and allow the work to exist in a larger context.

 

Sandra Franco / Spain

We are surrounded by numerous boundaries that condition our experiences. Our body being the main and first of them, in a constantly evolving state but with its own imitations, finds its extension in the space, and context, we inhabit, either permanent or temporary. These physical elements have a strong influence in the definition and framing of our identity, while raising some recurrent boundaries that might create certain feelings of disconnection. Those are inherently connected with our mind self-imposed restrictions, usually based on fears, previous experiences, expectations and (the anticipation of) judgement. The act of framing necessarily implies something is left outside, hidden, avoided or dismissed, for not being considered ‘appropriate’ under a certain criteria. Creative and conceptually, I feel the necessity ofquestioning what lies between and outside those lines, exploring my beliefs and challenging my own limitations, through the use of cross-disciplinary elements.

 

Bogdan Pavlovic / Serbia

I had always tried to break away from traditional perception of fine art, printmaking and two-dimensional representations of my work, because it always felt limiting, as if I had to put my work into something predefined, premade by someone else. So my artwork has gradually steered away from anything traditional, first by embedding my prints in threedimensional structures, and later (and current) by working with digital prints and eading towards generative art which by definition negate any kind of boundaries, frames and borders.

 

Andrea Junekova / Slovakia

I see borders as an seemingly imaginary lines created by our minds. They refers to other horizons, overlap into other realities and levels of perception.  Waiting for comprehension. To be discovered. (Still) well hidden.