Maria Lusitano
Scattered Cartographies
Skånes Konstförening 20/1 - 5/2 2012
The three films in Scattered Cartographies act as a non-chronological video diary, constantly modifying itself. Memories turn up and mix with the world we experience, here and now. The ordinary private is contrasted to the bigger outside world. The two earliest films shown at the exhibition are: Moving Away From Home, and Now It Was Just Make Believe and these reflect largely around Maria's own childhood utopian vision of Sweden, contrasting this vision with her real meeting of this northern country. It was in 2007 that Maria Lusitano left Lisbon to study at Malmö Art Academy. At this point in her life she had given birth to her son. This key moment in her life led to reflections on both the utopian dream she had buil about Sweden as a child, and his contemplation of the world. These films consist of conversations and interviews with other Portuguese-speaking people, mixed with TV spots, movies, music, and radio programs. The third film, (un) memory, is newly produced for the exhibition. Here we see reflections of her working method. And how the memories of the past becomes an imprint that marks life today, or how memory become a part of a whole new context.
/Per Brunskog
http://www.marialusitano.org/
Scattered Cartographies
Skånes Konstförening 20/1 - 5/2 2012
The three films in Scattered Cartographies act as a non-chronological video diary, constantly modifying itself. Memories turn up and mix with the world we experience, here and now. The ordinary private is contrasted to the bigger outside world. The two earliest films shown at the exhibition are: Moving Away From Home, and Now It Was Just Make Believe and these reflect largely around Maria's own childhood utopian vision of Sweden, contrasting this vision with her real meeting of this northern country. It was in 2007 that Maria Lusitano left Lisbon to study at Malmö Art Academy. At this point in her life she had given birth to her son. This key moment in her life led to reflections on both the utopian dream she had buil about Sweden as a child, and his contemplation of the world. These films consist of conversations and interviews with other Portuguese-speaking people, mixed with TV spots, movies, music, and radio programs. The third film, (un) memory, is newly produced for the exhibition. Here we see reflections of her working method. And how the memories of the past becomes an imprint that marks life today, or how memory become a part of a whole new context.
/Per Brunskog
http://www.marialusitano.org/