Penetrations

“Penetrations” (2002)
Plastic Arts exhibition promoted by ZART 21

Shoe installation in the attic with Tânia Inácio Marques
40 red velvet pillows. 20 x 20 cm
40 single feet shoes



This installation, composed of 40 shoes over red velvet pillows is an antithesis to the essence of the exhibition. They occupy the entire space we were given making it impossible to penetrate it. It also seems like they are leaving because they are all pointed towards the door. The shoes have lost their pair and no longer have a function, they penetrated and occupied the place becoming the support of a new life form, the flower.



Is another project promoted by ZART 21. It consisted on the occupation of a house in ruins, providing a non-space and all the necessary technical and logistical support to the work and the artists.This non-space, in a building by the São Jorge Castle in Lisbon, was penetrated by ZART 21 and another 40 artists, whose projects were previously selected by the group.
The various rooms were penetrated e transformed according to the demands of the works, being that anyone could puncture walls, use the building’s façade or anything considered necessary to support the concept of penetrations.
Besides the main idea that we all were intruders in that space, the name also suggest an idea of confrontation and breaking of rules.The project Penetrations pretended to create a total space and an open exhibiting place for all kinds of artistic expression.