Going Deeper An exhibition by Luísa Mota

Synopsis

The PLMJ Foundation presents the exhibition Going Deeper by Luísa Mota, as part of the OFF programme at the PLMJ Foundation Exhibition Space, organised by Miguel Amado, the PLMJ Foundation’s commissioner, and dedicated to unpublished projects by Portuguese and CPLP artists. In Going Deeper, the artist explores the relationship between archetypal images, the myths associated with water and representations of social interaction. The exhibition brings together photography, video, sculpture and drawing, and presents a series of works created between 2008 and 2010, most of which were made for this occasion.

Luísa Mota is interested in archetypes as part of the collective unconscious. She explores the symbolic system that defines common patterns of behaviour. In this sense, the representation of phenomena that articulate the individual and society is the raw material of her practice. For this exhibition, the artist has developed photographic series and videos in which water, as one of the four elements of nature, plays a fundamental role in the construction of a mythological world view.

These works are joined by others that analyse the intersection between the body and the spiritual dimension in the structuring of everyday life, another of the artist’s favourite themes. The exhibition thus provides an overview of Luísa Mota’s concerns, revealing her unique interpretation of the points of contact between individual psychology and the universal cultural imaginary.

Curator

Miguel Amado