Place:
Antiguo Cuartel de Artillería, Pabellón 2
Desterrado, 2010.
The title of Carla Filipe¿s installation Desterrado refers to the idea of dislocation. The floor-piece is created in a space that was formerly the toilet and shower block on the first floor of Pavilion 2. The installation is made from cement using water from the Mediterranean Sea. Objects collected during walks in the streets of Murcia, including discarded clothes, printed job ads and the recordings of phrases written as graffiti on walls around the city, are examples of the migratory archaeology of the present.
Carla Filipe was born in Aveiro, Portugal in 1973 and is currently living and working in London, UK and Porto, Portugal. She studied Fine Arts ¿ Sculpture in Faculdade de Belas-Artes da Universidade do Porto (Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto) and has a master degree in Contemporary Artistic Practices from the same institution. Currently she is Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's resident artist at the Acme Studios in London. A selection of her solo shows include É um espaço estranho e maravilhoso, o ar é seco, quente e insípido- Precarious, escape, fascination, Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon ( Portugal) 2010; Quem espera é pobre, Galeria Reflexus, Porto ( Portugal) 2009; These Things Take Time, Espaço Campanhã, Porto, 2009; Desertar, InTransit, Porto (Portugal) 2007; Obrigado pela conversa, A Sala, Porto (Portugal) 2006; Without Name, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto ( Portugal) 2005; Zona de Estar, Salão Olímpico, Porto ( Portugal) 2004. Her work has been featured in several group shows, namely Entroncamento, Espaço Avenida, Lisbon (Portugal ) 2009; Hospitalidade, Hospital de São João, Porto (Portugal) 2009, Está a morrer e não quer ver, Espaço Campanhã, Porto (Portugal)2009; Part-ilha, Spike Island, Bristol (UK) 2008; INTRO, Contretype, Brussels (Belgium) 2007; Busca Pólos, Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães, Portugal and Pavilhão de Portugal, Coimbra, Portugal (co-production with Serralves Museum, Porto) 2006; Toxic - O Discurso do Excesso, Terminal and Plano 21, Oeiras (Portugal) 2005; O Homem Invisível, ZDB, Lisbon ( Portugal) 2004. Filipe has been an active organizer and responsible with others artists, a artist-run spaces in Porto. She is represented by Galeria Reflexus, Porto.
