Susana Mendes Silva | Portugal

Camuflagem


Artphone

 

Artphone is an online performance. Everyone can call me, and speak freely about contemporary art. It was first presented at Free Manifesta, manifesta 4, in Frankfurt, and the medium was a mobile phone. But this time as the festival is in Brazil, I thought it would be more democratic to use online phone.

Camouflage is a work made for the online magazine Homeless Monalisa. The theme sugested to artists was camouflage, and therefore I based my project in a homonimous scoutboys game. The camouflage game has a number of rules that inspired a closed narrative and a non-interactive environment.

Susana Mendes Silva was born in Lisbon in 1972.
Works and lives in Lisbon, Portugal.
Has a Diploma in Sculpture-Visual Arts by the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon and participates in exhibitions since 1996.
In her work she has always tried to dislocate the established premises by the world that surrounds us, subtly criticizing the conditions and relations of the human being. She has used and experimented several media - drawing, photograph, installation, objects, video, among others - aware of the specificities of the projects or of the spaces.


Exposições individuais | Solo exhibitions
2005
Life-cage, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa
2004
S/ Título (Maus Hábitos), Maus Hábitos, Porto.
2003
I know I’m not to blame, In transit, Artes em Partes, Porto
“…!?”, Galeria Marta Vidal, Porto.
2002
S/ Título (Lounge), Lounge Bar, Lisboa
(Prevenção da) Vertigem, Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa.
1999
S/ Título (Sarajevo), 1999, Assírio & Alvim, Lisboa.


Exposições colectivas (selecção) | Group exhibitions (selection)
2005
Identidades Virtuais, Encontro Arte e Comunicação, CCB, Lisboa
My own private images | Imagens Privadas, Plataforma Revolver, Lisboa
PrintROOM, Printing Matters KIOSK XII-Modes of Multiplication,
Witte de With, Rotterdam
Penthouse- uma ocupação temporária, Rua de Ceuta, 16 (4º, 5º e 6º andares), Porto
Uma extensão do olhar: obras da colecção da Fundação PLMJ, CAV, Coimbra
2004
Proximidades e Acessos: obras da colecção de Ivo Martins, Culturgest, Porto
49ème Salon d\'Art Contemporain de Montrouge, Paris
OUT VIDEO- International video-art festival in public spaces, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Selecção Nacional, in Em Jogo/ On Side, CAV, Coimbra
17º Encontros da Imagem, Mosteiro de Tibães, Braga
Criar um lugar, Porto.
2003
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisboa
Arte dos Artistas, Culturgest, Lisboa
“a Dois”, Museu de Francisco Tavares Proença Junior, Castelo Branco
50/50, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
2002
Arte-Público, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto/ Culturgest, Lisboa
Life Policies, ZDB, Lisboa
Free Manifesta, manifesta 4, Frankfurt
Interpress, Interpress, Lisboa
Under Surveillance/ Sob Vigilância, Fábrica da Pólvora, Barcarena.
2001
URBANLAB.Bienal Maia_2001 [short cut], Maia
Snapshot, Beaver College, Fine Arts Gallery, Philadelphia.