Strangeness
(last edited: 2026)
author(s): Catarina Casais
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
The exhibition Estranhamento (Strangeness) aims to share the visual art work developed by researcher Catarina Casais, associated with her doctoral project Políticas de Estranhamento: Práticas de resistência e revigoração docente (Policies of Strangeness: Practices of resistance and teaching reinvigoration).
These drawings, linocuts and embroideries seek connections between her artistic practice and research work, promoting possibilities for reflection on the teaching profession in the visual arts and the teaching demonstrations that took place between 2020 and 2024. The challenge in developing these works is to think, based on the materiality of the teaching demonstrations, about possible languages through the techniques and materials used. These languages reflect a desire to think about the daily reality of visual arts teachers and the moments of protest related to their professional practice.
Linocut, embroidery and drawing become ways of addressing the issue of visual arts teaching and its politicisation within the school environment, inviting everyone to visit the thinking laboratory that has been developed over the last academic year at Atelier Sem Forma.
Linoleum bitmap experiment- ''A lousy Day''
(last edited: 2025)
author(s): MARTEN PREI
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
A lousy day is a colorful experiment seeking to translate a digitally constructed photo collage into the material world through a traditional printmaking technique. The project's aim is to see how a step-by-step process, through manual labor, with all its human errors and monotonous replication can slightly alter the visible properties of a previously digital image. As if some tiny mistakes were analogue glitches added to an otherwise virtual visual abstraction. The image of the print itself is built up in the CMYK color channel system which has been separated into four different bitmap layers. Each segmented and cut into linoleum plates, later printed together. Resulting in a second observation of how well a low resolution mass of pixels could be brought to the naturally observable world, yet staying with its comparatively cold and calculated precision. A bridge between technological and physical practices.