2020, some Photos that make part of my Master Research.
“A diary of self-bestialization”; where I have been documenting photographically and poetically travels and discoveries.

Here you can have a look at a great part of my project, the final exhibition was called “Terra em Vénus” (Earth on Venus) and can be visited on my website.

Diary of self-bestialization, 2020.
Down you can have a look on the final textile book as a poetic result of my research:

Abstract

This poetical object and investigation addresses contemporary masked rituals and focuses especially on a mainly visual analysis of what is worn in those gatherings. One fundamental affirmation has been guiding the creative process from the beginning: how the dresses and masks are reflecting a certain craving to get closer to the force of the unknown. Different key points have been researched theoretically and practically to explore the consistency, essence and origin of those occasions. Connecting both my continuous reflection and practical implementation throughout my personal and creative discovery led me to the inception of a diary of self-bestialization, that would give me the permission to contain and speak of personally significant reflections as well as to design an alignment that invites to accompany my intimate steps of targeting the arrival in a new imaginary place. It was born of a first and rather raw fascination for the impulsive appearances and behaviours observed in small and rural Carnival rites, nevertheless passed through a process of investigating the source of the moment in which an imaginary is been created and how the mask and the costume is acting as a communicator between the human body and an unknown existence of a mysterious and unidentified entity, which can be a creature, a matter or a place.
Intertwining poetical approaches and artistic experiences obtained and inspired by contacting with those vivid spots and moments, I seek to reveal aspects of the meeting points between the material body and the immaterial imaginary. This was possible by compromising to a obviously poetical approach. The importance of traveling throughout the creative process as well as the subsequents accounts of clear and unclear memories mixed with theoretically reading feeds the artistic practise and thought, which nourishes itself from memories, experiences and characteristics of the places and imaginaries that have been visited.
The final book is itself a communicator, which invites the reader to enter.

Keywords: carnival rites, imaginary worlds, creatures, masked rituals, outfit.