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In Search of the SelfPRISCILA FERNANDES
9th MAY 2009 - 20th JUNE 2009
“In Search of the Self”, by Priscila Fernandes, reflects on conventions of presentation and the production of knowledge, revealing the processes by which we both learn and represent ideas.
In a didactic exercise of incongruous references, ranging from the Enlightenment individual to the Postmodern subject, Fernandes undertakes the mission of documenting an effort to find the ultimate representation for the notion of identity, and presents a theory based on the imagining of multiple personalities, as a reflection of the fragmented representation of identity in contemporary society.Priscila Fernandes was born in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1981. She studied Painting at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin and is presently attending the Master programme in Fine Art at the Piet Zwart Institute, in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Her work has gained international media recognition and artistic awards. She has lectured on various aspects of her research and artistic practice and exhibited in China, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Spain, Ireland and Portugal. She lives and works in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
In her exceptionally well devised and organized installation, Priscila Fernandes (who, for the record, is under the heading of painting and not sculpture) comes across as being a more mature artist precisely because of her critical distance from material that deals with fundamental facets of identity. Fernandes, in fact, has devised two viable artistic identities, Francisco J. and Ana Garcini. The former’s intricately elaborated theory and practice of sandwich-eating, together with a terrifically deadpan video, is worth careful study. But the essential point is that an artist can deal genuinely and convincingly with complex issues of identity outside of a gruelling mode of confessional autobiography.'STUDENTS PILE THE METAPHORS HIGH' By Aidan Dunne, THE IRISH TIMES, June 9, 2006
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Cavanacor Gallery, Ballindrait, Lifford, Co. Donegal, Ireland.
Telephone / Fax 00353 74 9141143
email: art@cavanacorgallery.ie website: www.cavanacorgallery.ie
Opening Times: Tuesday – Saturday 12-6, Sunday 2-6 or by appointment.
Directions:
From Lifford Roundabout take the N14 (Letterkenny road) to Rossgier (3km) 200m past Rossgier on the main road turn left (signed Cavanacor Gallery). The Gallery is 200m on the right.
