Marta Bernardes was born, against all odds of somebody else being born in her stead, in 1983 in Porto, Portugal. She graduated in Painting from FBAUP in 2006. She deepened her study in visual arts and multimedia at ESNBA in Paris and received a master's degree in 2008 in Psicoanálisis y Filosofía de la Cultura from UCM-Madrid. Since 2005, she has regularly exhibited both her plastic and audiovisual work, as well as performative, poetic and musical pieces to the public. She has displayed her work in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Tunisia, France, Brazil, Morocco and Canada. He has works in public and private collections. She has edited: “Arquivo de nuvens“ (Cadernos do Campo Alegre, 2007), “Ulises” (in the collection Rato da Europa, Pé de Mosca, 2013) “Claviculária” (Douda Correria, 2014), "A inocência das facas” (Tcharan editora, 2015), “Achamento” with Catarina Nunes de Almeida (do lado esquerdo editora, 2015), “Barafunda” with Afonso Cruz (Caminho, 2015) and "Ícaro"( Mariposa Azual, 2016).
(This residency took place at the same time as artist Maria Trabulo's residency, in partnership with Corrente D’escritas)
Marta Bernardes works on the premise of the artist’s absence from the “world of junk”. The primary focus is on valuing the artist's work - the artist is the holder of the alchemical capacity to transform waste into an object of value, from rubbish into an art piece and from the eminent state of oblivion into glory. In an email exchange between the artist and No Entulho, Marta Bernardes asks raises questions about “Labor: this transversal existence to any process of human production, from agriculture to industry, from scientific research to literature. Labor. Work. Art Work. Thinking about artistic creation in a factory and industrial setting immediately leads us to ask about the place of labor in the entire manufacturing flow, raw materials, surplus, work rhythms and rituals, sales and transport logics, particular knowledge that transforms the raw material creating its added value. Talking about labor is talking about people. People. People. Is the artist's labor considered production?"
Credits
collaboration with Maria Trabulo partnership with Correntes D’escritas
format: residency cycle 02 resources: sand photography: Marta Bernardes
