EVANGELINA SOUSA

EVANGELINA SOUSA

(Portugal)

EVANGELINA SOUSA was born in Funchal, Madeira Island (1952), where she lives. She has a degree in Sculpture from the Madeira Academy of Music and Fine Arts (1975), and a Postgraduate and Master's degree in Computer Visualisation and Animation, Bournemouth University, U.K. (1992, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation scholarship). Teaching practice: Instituto Superior de Artes Plásticas da Madeira (1976/91); National Centre for Computer Animation, Bournemouth University, U.K. (1992/98); University of Madeira, Department of Art and Design (2001/11).

Research, plastic experimentation and exhibitions (SUMMARY): Photography and sculpture (since 1976); Photography with digital processing and composition (since 1985); Computer image synthesis and animation (since 1985). She has been exhibiting individually and collectively since 1976.

ELEMENTS 03

DIGITAL ART

Technical sheets

Artistic Direction: Evangelina Sousa

Digital Production: Evangelina Sousa

Digital art format: square (116 x 116 cm)

Year: 2023

Synopsis

 "An element, we take it, is a body into which other bodies may be analysed, present in them potentially or in actuality (which of these, is still disputable), and not itself divisible into bodies different in form. That, or something like it, is what all men in every case mean by element. "

Aristotle, On the Heavens, translated by J.L.Stocks

FIRE is part of the '4 (four) elements' project. Four elements, say the ancients. EARTH, FIRE, WATER, AIR. The essence of things. That which gives rise to them. Expression of their complexity/simplicity. Life and energy (fire); And ether, the fifth element, an expression of emptiness, the absence of things. Matter versus emptiness. Light and its absence. Duality.

The infinite beauty of each extreme and its opposite. Since the concept of one only exists because of the contrast it establishes with the other. And there are infinite possible variations between the two extremes.

This is the motto. This is the pretext. What has been extrapolated from these concepts and moulded into this work is a very free and almost random interpretation of the thoughts/feelings triggered by a (diagonal) reading of these things from the ancients. Nothing scientific. Don't believe me, I don't know anything, I just feel the delight of colour and light. The visual reading of this work invites you to contemplate, to slow down, to take a deep breath, to stop for a moment. May it also be an exercise in meditation for you.

And as the Master (who I am not) would say, "I give you my peace..." (if I have any).

Apoiado - Supported

Parceiros de Meios - Media Partners