Lucilina Freitas divides herself between teaching and the creation of three-dimensional universes which its result confuses the observer leading him to question itself the art object. Her intention is to argue and go beyond the visible without ever misrepresenting the essence of her creation.
What you decided to create for this exhibition?
Lucilina Freitas: I decided to create these glasses of liquor, was a piece I have used several times, and has to do with my training in design. I am not able to pick up a bottle and put in there figurative elements. I always liked cleaner works.
It reflects the island somehow?
LF: No, it's a set of things that I have inside; I do not know where I got them.
But, you have chosen a set of glasses that are related to regionalism.
LF: I did not intend to follow the regionalism. I took the glasses of liquor, and I offer a recipe on the package of tin-tun-tan and tangerine liquor. It's something we very much appreciate the touch of glass, I did not intended to paint pottery, for now at least not yet. Perhaps belongs to a set of memories that we have within and we throw out here without thinking too much about it, however the intention was not to approach the island and its customs.
What is your material of choice?
LF: My work has always been a bit of all three components, painting, sculpture and installation. I made a table that may not look like it but it is an exercise of painting. It is a reflection, is a design or the image is painted? In my first works I idealized figures introduce in a set of furniture. What did I do? I took them from the canvas and passed them to a three dimension existence.
What you choose first the concept or you dried immediately for the installation?
LF: The concept. If you give me a theme, I develop from that on. A conducting thread, a theme, maybe what the viewer sees is that the end the works of art are connected to each other. However, I haven't worked hard, I have two experiences of individual shows. I create isolated pieces of art, in most cases. But whenever there is a proposal I develop it in my language, in my world, I do what I like.
