João Pedro Trindade (Aveiro, 1990) lives and works in Porto. He graduated in Fine Arts - Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto University. He has been collaborating in cultural development and dissemination projects such as Painel (2012/2014) and Nartece (2015/2017). He is currently a member of Sismógrafo's team. As an author, he has been using media such as painting, sculpture, and installation in the research and production of his work.
By pressing an object against a surface and removing the air that separates them, we force their contact and establish a similarity. As a result of this action, it is possible for aluminum foil to break free from its usual function and transform into a surface capable of receiving an image. Allowing wood particles to settle on an object, fixing them, and repeating the process makes it possible to create a new body, dense and compact. All these processes of constructing images and objects have a common denominator: direct contact with a material capable of giving them shape and content, without disregarding their uniqueness.
