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19 Oct

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Lelia Byron researched and experimented with creative plastic recycling. As the outcome of this project, Lelia produced two outdoor sculptures, titled Plastic Dreams: Sunrise and Sunset , which were installed at a town entrance. The sculptures were made from hundreds of pounds of plastic which she washed, sorted by type and color, shredded, and then molded into hundreds of individual parts with a DIY manual injection machine. Lelia used plastic as a raw material for creative purposes at a small scale, a new and expanding area of research. Plastic has been recycled at an industrial level for decades, but creative plastic recycling is in its early stages. The Precious Plastic Machines of Buinho, which she used to make these sculptures, are an example. They are hand-built with easily found inexpensive parts and simplify industrial processes to recycle plastic....

19 Oct

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The collective Hypokeimenonic Verses is made up of artist Victoria DeBlassie and writer Connor Maley, and together they scrutiniously examine the intersection between their two respective art practices: visual arts and experimental fiction. This body of work and text explores the history of colonization both done to and by Portugal as represented by its flora. Using source imagery the duo found from the Ethnographic Museum of Messejana, Portugal, DeBlassie laser-cut: images of boats on laminated Bougainvillea petals and watermelon peels; images of Arabic writings on stone tablets onto laminated orange and lemon peels; images of the ocean seen in children’s books onto cantaloupe peels; images of colonial lace patterns onto laminated Bougainvillea petals. Also developed during the residency is a site-specific sundial installation made for the town of Messejana, called "O Sol Nos Tempos", and situated at the Quinta da Cerca. Victoria made the sundial with materials I collected on walks around and in the town and the blue and white colors represent the colors of the buildings...

04 Oct

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Rakshita Mittal is a visual artist who generally explores the complexities of the relationships people share with spaces. She has been working as a professional photographer for more than five years and has co-founded a photography and film company called Studio Basic. At the Buinho Residency, Rakshita worked with local elderly women of Messejana to create a body of work around the lives of the women there. The resulting body of works, entitled "Through my Kitchen Window", further explores the kind of roles women of Messejana play at home and in professional spheres. This documentary series is a personal memoir of the artist's interactions with these women, where the photographer, also became an intimate part of their narratives as these women share slices of their lives with her...

04 Oct

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For this residency, we came together from two different parts of the world - Selina, located in Montreal, Canada and Justine living in Berlin, Germany. Our time at Buinho was an opportunity to reconnect and feed our creative practice. We embarked on various projects engaging with the local community and developed a series of collaborative works. We hosted two workshops during our time there - an “Exquisite Corpse” drawing activity with the kids in primary school and a “Blind Contour '' session, where we drew the portraits of the elderly at a care home in the community. In our artistic work, we were inspired by the scenes of Portugal: sunlight, shadows, bricks, greenery, decay. We wanted to capture the things we both took notice of. This inspired two separate projects: the first was a Body Diptychs. These photographs embodied our collaborative process, defining oneness within twinhood, our experience of seeing a whole in our togetherness. We observed from the same lens as we explored our surroundings, parroting each other’s thoughts and gestures in poses and compositions. The second was a time-based ‘mural’ titled Sun Painting. At every half hour, we painted the shape of the light passing through a small window of a soon-to-be demolished bus shelter. A gradient of blues unfolded....

10 Mar

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Lili Levine (US) came to our rural fablab in southern Portugal to develop a long term residence of three months. During this period Lilia developed research about Portuguese traditional design and handicrafts, and more specifically the pattern design are Portuguese azulejo tiles and lace embroidery. Inspired by the “azulejos” Lilia developed a collection of pieces that seek to blur the notion between hard and soft, rigid and flexible, tiled and woven. All pieces where 3D printed in our fablab and the photographs taken in one of our spaces....

12 Oct

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People and Nature have always been a point of focus in Nathalie Magniez’s works. She experiments with surreal juxtapositions of places and people. In the Morgado’s Colonel master bedroom, Nathalie found the necessary combination between melancholy, identity and quietness needed to inspire a new body of work. During her residency Nathalie produced a significant number of paintings and drawings, finalizing with an itinerary exhibition through the streets of Messejana....

12 Oct

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Tudo Azul is a work that uses sculpture as a medium to explore the impact of urbanization on those left behind, while honouring the Portuguese ritual of bullfighting. A blue and white bull origami sculpture “Margarita” was created using construction paper & tape and placed as an ephemeral installation in the streets of Messejana. The sculpture’s colours mirror the colours of traditional houses in Alentejo, while evoking saudade: a melancholic longing for the departure of those who will be missed....

12 Oct

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Graduated from the Maryland College of Art with a BFA in Graphic Design, Mazzy Bell spent most of her college career perfecting my technical craft, namely in the fields of printmaking and ceramics. While initially the residency aimed to create a body of work that is both playful and discomforting to the viewer, Mazzy Bell ended by creating a body of work dedicated to Buinho’s Playground. Buinho is especially thankful to Mazzy Bell for dedicating her creative energy and talent for this mission....

12 Oct

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Lee Suet-Ying received her master degree in visual art from Hong Kong. Her recent works show her interest in how people create the sense of place in different kinds of space, aiming to“generate experience” based on the daily observations of places and objects. In Buinho Lee was inspired by both the surrounding landscape of Messejana and the story behind Forma factory. As a result she revisited two early products of Forma, trying to mix conventional woodworking with CNC milling capability....

12 Oct

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With both a degree in Architecture and Fine Arts, Elena Boccini artistic practice provides a strong relationship with the natural, built forms within Nature. Inspired by the smooth landscape of Alentejo, and the simplicity of the agricultural practices and traditions. Elena Boccini developed a landart intervention during her residency in Buinho. Forty-one haystacks were transformed into a bingo installation, inviting the viewers to submerge and play within Messejana’s plains....