A Home Made by Drawing: Amazonia
curated by Ângela Ferreira
Capela da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
2020
Capela da Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa
2020
A Home Made by Drawing is an ongoing art-research and anthropological project that explores the fundamental human impulse to dwell, alongside the evolving concepts of home, shelter, and belonging. It investigates the intricate tensions between mobility and rootedness, identity and transformation.
In this installation, I reimagine and reconstruct photographic fragments and architectural memories gathered during my formative journey to the Amazon rainforest in 2014. These remnants serve as portals into a space where memory and imagination converge. The work navigates the complex dialectic between home and horizon, enclosure and openness, the finite and the infinite—producing a restless, unresolved oscillation between contraction and expansion, between the longing to remain and the call to depart.
A Home Made by Drawing envisions dwelling not as a static condition, but as a fluid, nomadic practice—a continuous negotiation between permanence and impermanence, self and landscape. It imagines identity and belonging as landscapes in perpetual flux, shaped by the forces of movement, memory, and desire.
Through the creation of fragile, ephemeral architectures, I construct symbolic nomadic structures—tentative shelters that embody the delicate pull between settling and wandering, between being and becoming. These structures are not just physical forms but metaphorical spaces, where the anchoring comfort of home coexists with the boundless, uncontainable urge to journey beyond.