Priscila Fernandes develops her works from an interest into didactics, education and the conveyance of knowledge.<\/p>\n
In Against the Enamel<\/em> Fernandes presents an installation incorporating video and sculpture. As in other currents works, Fernandes creates references to Neo-Impressionism and ideological shifts at the turn of the 19th<\/sup> and 20th<\/sup> centuries. The large LED video screen hanging from the ceiling, with its movement and multi-colours generating a veritable maelstrom, creates \u2012 in interplay with the rough cast iron sculptures placed on the floor \u2012 associations with advancing industrialisation and a changing social structure, the idea of productivity, scientific progress, the masses’ longing for entertainment and also for anarchic utopias.<\/p>\n
Priscila Fernandes (*1981) is grantee of the Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. \nAs a work for her current exhibition in Espai 13 at the Fundaci\u00f3 Joan Mir\u00f3 in Barcelona, she has recently published her book \u00bfY el Arte? The Book of Aesthetic Education of the Modern School<\/em>.<\/p>\n