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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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Rithika Pandey is an emerging visual artist, based in Mumbai’s, supported by Buinho’s for her first international AIR program. While still in the process of discovering and maturing an artistic path, Rithika was able to make good use of Buinho’s conditions and atmosphere to work on series of personal experimental painting projects which explores outer landscapes. Such works exhibit a narrative quality to it that is instigated through personal and ancient mythologies....

12 Oct

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Rachel Tzvia Back is an English-language Israeli poet, translator and literary researcher, residing in the Galilee (Israel). Rachel developed a writer’s residency in Buinho, during which she advanced in the translation of a preeminent Hebrew poet....

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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Luca Dellanna is a mechanical engineer by training but that decided to quit his corporate job to become an independent researcher and a non-fiction writer. During his stay in Messejana Luca was able to finalize his upcoming book dedicated to the topic of human behaviour....

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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A London based artist who has been painting and drawing since a very young age, Kokil Sharma decided to give up her architectural practice two years ago to start her art studio and focus merely on her artistic practice. Kokil was granted the opportunity to develop an artistic residency in Buinho has an emergent artist starting her first steps. Kokil portraited a group of Messejana’s community leaders, in a project centered around the importance of local recognition and visibility....

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....