Ferraz erraz is an artist who looks at her work as a route of clearance. Searches the simplicity, through another language, evident in her artistic interpretation of life. Search for a truth. Through the waters of time it initiates a trip, a certain search, somehow is a wandering loneliness until I... reach you. An exhibition to be seen in the Pleasures Gallery.
What is the idea behind this exhibition?
Guida Ferraz: Usually in my work I use the mixed technique. I stopped for a while, but used before more oil on wood and other materials. Put pieces of various objects. This time I decided to work the design. Here the technique is used in glue mixed with parchment paper and it gives me the chance to play with transparencies. The hide and let on, but not see through. I think the potential is there.
Swallows why?
GF: The swallows have to do with a course, a certain demand. All works are based on a sonnet of Pablo Neruda, a sentence that says that wandering loneliness until I reach you. In the background gives an idea of a journey, to be looking for anything.
It's a lonely path?
GF: Yes, is a search for truth. A place in the world, of being itself, in the general sense of love. To feel good about her and it was this path that I wanted to show, through another language. Hence the swallows, which also has a lot to do with my childhood. I was born in Africa and I remember having them close to home in the eaves. It is a beautiful bird and I think the idea is linked in nature. There is a demand for certain simplicity. A need to move towards peace, leaving behind everything that is more superfluous.
Africa is always in the background of your work?
GF: Not directly. Arises by chance. I went to a place where the swallows came and memory recall, but here I try to debug more. Is a need for me to go debugging.
Do you feel a need to tell a story through your works?
GF: Maybe deep inside is not a story with a beginning, middle and end. It's more a need to go Debugging, simplifying to go until you come toward simplicity.
Many of the pieces produced are new interpretations of famous paintings, which did you sought with these artistic pursuits?
GF: I think that deep down I tried something very striking. Despite of "graving" the works of other artists, is a form of expression much mine own. But sometimes I do not know why I do it.
Sente uma necessidade de contar uma história através das suas obras?
GF: Se calhar no fundo não é como contar uma história com princípio, meio e fim. É mais uma necessidade de ir depurando, de ir simplificando, até chegar a uma simplicidade.
Muitas das peças que elaborou são novas interpretações de quadros famosos, o que procurava com esses exercícios artísticos?
GF: Acho que no fundo procurei algo de muito gritante. Apesar de estar a “pegar” obras de outros artistas, é uma forma de expressão muito minha. Mas, nem sei às vezes, porque o faço.
