Luísa Jacinto

2019

Andreia Santana

Portugal

iron, painting, audiovisual material, chamfering, copper, welding machine

Sonoscopia

2020

Berru

Portugal

iron, electronic material, audiovisual material, welding machine

Escola das Artes - Universidade Católica do Porto

2019

Carlos Arteiro

Portugal

glass, expanded polystyrene, painting, suction cups

Mala Voadora

2024

Catarina Real

Portugal

steel, aluminium, drill, painting, grinder, metal workshop, 3D print

2025

Charity Hamidullah

USA

acrylic, aluminium, drill, chamfering, cardboard, iron, fiberglass, stainless steel, painting, grinder, welding machine, handsaw, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline

2025

Christian Lagata

Spain

drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, expanded polystyrene, iron, wood, stainless steel, painting, bender, grinder, circular saw, welding machine, metal workshop

2023

Cristina Mejias

Spain

glass, wood, iron, electronic material, brass, polyurea paint

Matadero Madrid, BF Glass Studio, Eneida Tavares

2023

Dayana Lucas

Venezuela, Portugal

plasma cutting, laser cut, expanded polystyrene, iron, painting, composite workshop, welding machine, glass

CIAJG

2021

Diogo da Cruz

Portugal

plasma cutting, iron, welding machine

Revista Umbigo

2025

Filipa Tojal

Portugal

chamfering, aluminium, drill, plasma cutting, iron, stainless steel, audiovisual material, painting, glass, metal workshop

Escola das Artes, Un. Autónoma de Lisboa

2018

Francisca Carvalho

Portugal

iron, welding machine, glass

Câmara Municipal Póvoa de Varzim

2023

Frida Baranek

Brasil

steel, stainless steel, brass, iron, cement, rubber, electronic material, bituminous, motorization, stone, welding machine, glass

2019

Gil Madeira

Portugal, Switzerland

glass, painting

2019

Guilherme de Sousa & Pedro Azevedo

Portugal

aluminium, glass

2024

Guilherme Figueiredo

Portugal

chamfering, ceramic, laser cut, iron, wood, audiovisual material, metal workshop, carpentary

2018

Kyra Nijskens

Netherlands

drill, chamfering, expanded polystyrene, fiberglass, painting, composite workshop, grinder, bender, plastic, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, carpentary

2018

Luísa Jacinto

Portugal

iron, painting, bender

AiR 351

Luísa Jacinto

programme cycle 01 / Stone-Veil

Luísa Jacinto lives and works in Lisbon. Jacinto's artistic practice deals with the protocols of the image, narratives fragmentation and simulation, the excess of evidence and obscuration.
Of special note among her solo exhibitions are The idea of returning, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisboa, Portugal, 2022; Stone-Veil, Artworks, Lisbon, Portugal, 2019, We had the experience but missed the meaning, galería silvestre, Madrid, Spain, curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues, 2018; A single day is enough, curated by João Miguel Fernandes Jorge, Museu Carlos Machado, Azores, Portugal, 2012. Of special note among her collective exhibitions are It's the scenery that moves (duo exhibition with Isa Melsheimer) Brotéria, Lisbon, Portugal, 2022; Painting, Observation Field, curated by João Pinharanda, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal, 2021; PADA, ASC Gallery, London, United Kingdom, 2019; WAIT, curated by Orlando Franco, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisboa, Portugal 2019; Saudade - Unmemorable Place in Time, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China and Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal, 2018; Pontos Colaterais, Coleção de Arte Arquipélago, uma seleção, curated by João Silvério, Arquipélago, S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal, 2015.

"There was a moment," Luísa Jacinto says, "when I understood that I didn't just want to make beautiful surfaces, but to face vertigo, an accident. It's like a distancing game where I try not to give everything at first. There is a certain risk, but also a certain reckoning”.

The metal plates were worked on as if canvasses: first "attacked", then painted, and afterwards straightened by powerful calender and bending machines as basis for consecutive pictorial interventions ("It's a lot of torture for a metal plate", she recalls in an interview). Still, what we call "painting" is, strictly speaking, an alchemy of pigment work (cadmium, iridescence, brown, cobalt), something betwixt spraying and decanting. We are therefore precisely in contemporary painting territory, where the "old" machinery for representing the world is no longer worthy, or, as Isabelle Graw writes, "where painting abandons its former home - which was the image on the canvas - and becomes omnipresent in other forms of art."

Full text by Marta Mestre here.

Credits

partnership with AiR 351
resources: iron, painting, welding
format: residency cycle 01photography & video: Bruno Lança

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2024

Maria Constanza Ferreira

EUA, Venezuela, Portugal

aluminium, laser cut, audiovisual material, motorization, painting, glass

Covipor

2019

Maria Trabulo

Portugal

plasma cutting, painting, aluminium

Correntes d'escritas

2025

Marryam Moma

Tanzania, Nigeria, USA

glass, fiberglass, iron, aluminium, drill, chamfering, plasma cutting, painting, grinder, circular saw, handsaw, welding machine, resin, metal workshop, painting booth

Atlanta Beltline