Mimesis II 2008

Fac Simile / Exhibition

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Located on the third floor of the building nº211 of Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon, the exhibition Fac Simile is a journey through the making of the Mimesis Project.The exhibition was created and organized around the idea of showing the whole process of creation and production from the inside out, allowing the viewer an understanding of processes in detail.

Through out the exhibition the viewer can go through the timeline and experience both failures and achievements of the pieces development process. The collection here presented reveals, like a journey, the methods and techniques used in a very explanatory way, like an archeological room of a Museum. It describes in detail the experimental approach that has been taken and shows a sequence of intriguing ceramic fragments that mime clothing details and also a series of latex fragments of clothing. The anatomy of the building suggests a route, an imaginary trajectory from one room to the other. The design of each room, done in collaboration with the designer João Rosa respects the detailed nature of the sculptures by using transparent cubes that allow a view of 360º of each object exhibited.

Credits Support: Instituto das Artes ‐ Ministério da Cultura, Associação ModaLisboa.