{"id":3259,"date":"2020-02-19T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2020-02-19T16:07:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T16:07:26","slug":"mara-castilho-vazio-da-minha-alma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/mara-castilho-vazio-da-minha-alma\/","title":{"rendered":"EXPO &#8211; Mara Castilho &#8211; O VAZIO DA MINHA ALMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 50px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1&#8243;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1561637821447{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h1>Mara Castilho<\/h1>\n[\/vc_column_text]\n\r\n\r\n[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1561637845097{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\n<h2>O VAZIO DA MINHA ALMA<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text]\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[vc_empty_space height=&#8221;15&#8243;]\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n[vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1561638953751{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]\r\n<h5>Opening: Wednesday, November 27th 2019, 6.30pm<\/h5>\r\n<h5>Exhibition: November 28th to December 23rd 2019 | Mon. a Sat. 11am &#8211; 7pm<\/h5>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>Espa\u00e7o Cam\u00f5es da Livraria S\u00e1 da Costa<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>Pra\u00e7a Lu\u00eds de Cam\u00f5es, 22, 4\u00ba, 1200-994 Lisboa<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n[\/vc_column_text]\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n[mk_divider style=&#8221;thin_solid&#8221; divider_width=&#8221;custom_width&#8221; custom_width=&#8221;386&#8243; align=&#8221;left&#8221; thin_single_color=&#8221;#cccccc&#8221;]\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<p> [vc_column_text css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1561637971002{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}&#8221;]<\/h5>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 1\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h5>[\/vc_column_text] <\/p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\r\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3172 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maracastilho-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"892\" height=\"617\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 892px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 892\/617;\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3172\" src=\"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/maracastilho-1024x709.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"892\" height=\"617\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>In &#8220;O vazio da minha alma&#8221; (The emptiness of my soul), Mara Castilho exhibits painted and embroidered photographies. The emptiness and loss haunt her artworks. Between the black and with and gold, Castilho exhibits images that travel among the beauty and the ugly, the pain and the love, the empty and the ruin, the life and death.<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<p> [mk_divider style=&#8221;thin_solid&#8221; divider_width=&#8221;custom_width&#8221; custom_width=&#8221;386&#8243; align=&#8221;left&#8221; thin_single_color=&#8221;#cccccc&#8221;] <\/p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 24px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p><strong>MARA CASTILHO<\/strong> is an artist who works on the fields of video, installation, photography and performance. Castilho was nominated for BECK&#8217;S FUTURE&#8217;S ART (ENGLAND\/GB), Stephen Arlen Memorial Award for Performance, National English Opera (England\/GB) and the Internacional Prize of Performance, Galeria C\u00edvica (Italy\/IT). Her film &#8220;Process 5703\/2000&#8221; was the winner of the Best Film &amp; Best Soundtrack &#8220;Massimo Troisi European Award&#8221; (ITALY\/IT).<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>From her individual exhibitions, the following stand out: \u201cTurn Me On\u201d (2012), Gad Galeria, Lisbon; \u201cUntitled\u201d (2010), Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto; \u201cTrapped Inside my Head\u201d, Galeria 111, Lisbon; \u201cThe Art Dealer\u201d (2009), Espa\u00e7o Cabine, Lisbon; \u201cMara Castilho\u201d (2009), The Mews, London; \u201cTrapped Souls\u201d (2008), Kalhamma &amp; Pilppo Gallery, Helsinki; \u201cPolyphonic Works\u201d (2007), Sarajevo Winter Festival, Sarajevo; \u201cX-YOU\u2019. PROJECT I\u201d (2006), Sisterna \u2013 Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Lisbon; \u201cAusencia II\u201d (2004), MOCA \/ Museum of Modern Art, London;\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>Among group exhibitions, Castilho has shown her work on: \u201cOs Culturofagistas II\u201d (2012), Fabrica Asa \u2013 Guimar\u00e3es Capital Europeia da Cultura, Portugal; \u201cArquivos Secretos\u201d (2012), Galeria Arquivos Fotogr\u00e1ficos da Camara Municipal de Lisboa, Lisbon;\u00a0<strong>\u201c<\/strong>Os Culturofagistas\u201d (2012), Plataforma Revolver, Lisbon; \u201cSil\u00eancio\u201d (2011), Galeria Zipper, S\u00e3o Paulo; \u201cSal\u00e3o de desenho\u201d (2010), Galeria Sopro, Lisbon; \u201cVest\u00edgios\u201d (2009), Julio de Matos Art Space, Lisbon; \u201cNew Art Video from Europe\u201d (2008), Blow 111, London; \u201cGolden Rain\u201d (2008), Michael Petry Project, Stavanger Europena City of Culture, Stavanger; \u201cWho is on First?\u201d (2007), Royal Academy of Arts\/Hornsey Gallery, London.<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>She was also present on Film Festivals such as, \u201cIMZ-Dance Screen\u201d (2002), Monaco Inter. Dance Forum, Monaco e \u201cCinemed\/Mediterraneen Montpellier Inter.Festival\u201d (2002), Montpellier.<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>Among her famous performances, we have: \u201cLove me, Love Me Not\u201d (2008), Kalhama &amp; Piippo Gallery, Helsinki; \u201cCity Lost 0.11\u201d (2004), Laban Theatre, London; \u201c(des)assossego\u201d (2000), ZDB Art Space, Lisbon;<\/p>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<p> [mk_divider style=&#8221;thin_solid&#8221; divider_width=&#8221;custom_width&#8221; custom_width=&#8221;386&#8243; align=&#8221;left&#8221; thin_single_color=&#8221;#cccccc&#8221;] <\/p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 41px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Trapped Inside My head\u2019<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\u201c\u2026Castilho\u2019s art puts us on the path of complete destruction and suspends us in time \u2013 it offers pure pleasure without real death\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>Lapiz\u00a0Art Magazine\u00a0(Spain)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\r\n<p><strong><em>TOP 10 Latino Artists . Arts Art Basel Miami Beach. 2008<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\u2018Anyone who thinks Latino art is dead hasn\u02bct attended Art Basel in Miami Beach.\u00a0Despite a global recession, the year\u02bcs lineup included countless leading Latino artists including: Quisqueya Henriquez, Anthony Goicolea, Jos\u00e9 D\u00e1vila, I\u00f1aki Bonillas, Miguel Rio Branco, Julio Gonz\u00e1lez, Enoc Perez, Gabriel De la Mora, Cildo Meireles, Juan Genov\u00e9s, Mar\u00eda Elvira Escall\u00f3n, Waltercio Caldas, Pablo Vargas Lugo, Pello Irazu, Diango Hern\u00e1ndez, Rub\u00e9n Ortiz-Torres, Ra\u00fal de Nieves, Laura Lima, Guillermo Kuitca, Enrique Martinez Celaya,\u00a0<strong>Mara Castilho<\/strong>, Eduardo Chillida, Dominique Gonzalez- Foerster, Arturo Herrera,\u00a0Dami\u00e1n Ortega, Ignacio Uriarte, and Francisco Vidal.<em>\u2019\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><br \/><em><strong>ART FORUM (UK)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\r\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Prague Triennale\u2019<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\u2018\u2026Mara Castilho stands out with her videos set in installations \u2014 one of a woman seeming to go insane in a decrepit shower stall (Process 5703-2000), and Walking Through Rubble (Sarajevo) (2008), which projects images of destruction and includes a found sculpture of a female mannequin dressed up in burned photos of escalators and passages<strong><em>.\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><em><strong>Prague Post (Czech Republic)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\r\n<p><strong><em>\u2018Ausencia II\u2019<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(Absence) has the power, simplicity and beauty that bring artists such as Bill Viola to mind, drawing on themes of loneliness, femininity, suffering, loss and the complexity and duality of the human condition\u2026\u201d\u00a0<br \/><em><strong>New York Arts magazine (USA)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<p> [mk_divider style=&#8221;thin_solid&#8221; divider_width=&#8221;custom_width&#8221; custom_width=&#8221;386&#8243; align=&#8221;left&#8221; thin_single_color=&#8221;#cccccc&#8221;] <\/p>\n\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" style=\"height: 20px;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<h5>\r\n\r\n<\/h5>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<h5><\/h5><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;O VAZIO DA MINHA ALMA&#8221; de Mara Castilho, em breve, no Espa\u00e7o Cam\u00f5es da Livraria S\u00e1 da Costa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3172,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-20 15:54:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3372,"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3372"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocupart.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}