Fetish

"Fetish – It only complicates if you want it to” (2003)
Polyester fibred resin
Direct plaster mould
Original size, 110 cm



Jardim da Cascata, Quinta Real de Caxias. Exhibition of senior students in Sculpture by the FBAUL.




When confronted with the need of developing a project for public art, I outlined, from the start, two different options: I could either commit myself to a non-aggressive and non-realist reproduction or, on the opposite, try to symbolically reproduce a part of the daily life that I experience as a woman.
The choice for the object-woman came almost instinctively following this reflection. I would, therefore, create a situation in which the social framing of the sculptural group could be linked to a manners’ criticism.


The first vision that occurred to me was shaped in the perspective of an open, social and eminently public space: a bus stop, considered as a cross--road of social behaviours, seemed very interesting for the portraying of my goals. That stop, an individual place as a starting point for different destinations and personal situations and also a collective place by nature,
could still be dismembered into a place for observing and a place for being observed. I aimed to create a sequel in which the double role of observed and observer would juxtapose not always in harmony, given the fact that it would be illusory to think that, when exposed to others, our role is neutral and that only others have an active behaviour.

Desire and the sometimes delicate ways through which it reveals itself made me reproduce it as a panel of portraits I daily observe.
In our day-to-day life we see them represented in other person’s minds, just as I express what I feel in those minds.
Fibre resin is the plastic material I chose for direct moulding the legs. it gives the most realist and kitsch finishing.