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Capi GSMA
Artist from Portugal
Capi [Maria Inês Alves (2003)] is currently in her final year of a degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. In her work, she explores the absurdity and irony of the nature of materials through assemblage, by changing the functionality of the everyday objects she finds. She is drawn to a spectrum of media such as painting, sculpture, drawing and installation, exploring the potential of each object, transcending its function into something chaotic and ridiculous, thus transforming them into new instruments for painting and Painting itself. In this relationship between making and realising, she dedicates herself to the limits of what a work of art is.
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De volta
Sculpture by Capi GSMA
15 x 18 cm • Stone and mdf
In my work, I've been particularly interested in exploring the nature of found objects. Inspired by the works of artist Thea Djordjadze (n.1971) and the duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, among others, I try to turn these objects, whose function we know from the outset, into something absurd. De volta (2025), was developed from two materials from opposing backgrounds - stone, which comes from the natural soil, and MDF, a man-made material. In this paradoxical relationship, we try to find a balance.
About the artist
Capi GSMA
Artist from Portugal
Capi [Maria Inês Alves (2003)] is currently in her final year of a degree in Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. In her work, she explores the absurdity and irony of the nature of materials through assemblage, by changing the functionality of the everyday objects she finds. She is drawn to a spectrum of media such as painting, sculpture, drawing and installation, exploring the potential of each object, transcending its function into something chaotic and ridiculous, thus transforming them into new instruments for painting and Painting itself. In this relationship between making and realising, she dedicates herself to the limits of what a work of art is.
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