Ejercicios de aproximación

Departing from architecture and art publications, this work engages in a dialogue with emblematic female figures: designer Eillen Gray, architect Lina Bo Bardi and artist Lygia Clark, transforming artistic research in construction material. Thinking about the obliviousness of specific historical events and the absence of women in the construction of space during Modernism period, I pursued my interest on the artistic practice of women artists, designers and architects. There are many links between them: they share a prolific work, a strong collaboration with their companions, some had their works destroyed during the war, others died in concentration camps or left their countries by political reasons. In this project, I work as an historian, recovering moments of the past, thinking that this may be useful to explain the present. As Anna Arendt pointed out, the absences of the past may result in activism.

–Fernanda Fragateiro