It is the title of the exhibition of the young artist, Carolina Fernandes, who develops female anatomical deconstruction as the central theme of her artistic work. The works to be seen and appreciated at the Marca de Água Gallery in Funchal, until March 29th.
Why the title "Mutants"?
Carolina Fernandes: When I entered college, one of the artists that started to interest me was Mariana Abramovich, for example, and it also has to do with my interest in surrealism. It is a combination of these two interests, from then on. When I started to work I found that I had material to explore, that matter of the body, of mutant bodies.
But it is a deconstruction of the body.
CF: And the very work of the act of drawing, also ends up being that. The themes of deconstruction turn out to be more three-dimensional works in which the idea of the drawing itself is deconstructed.
You have many drawings in pencil.
CF: No, it's a ballpoint pen.
Why this particular choice?
CF: Because it's my favorite material, it's more practical, I've lived in Caldas, Costa da Caparica and Madeira and it's a material that I can take everywhere, and I can use it on canvas or other materials.
Do you use models? I see many drawings of bodies.
CF: I used some models and myself for lack of them. It is easier to increase or reduce the proportions if it is my body. Later I like to draw the female body, besides the feminist side that I also own, it is much easier for me, because I am a woman.
You have many black and white works and there is not much color.
CF: Yes, I do not use much color, I'm not interested so much in color, but the artificial shades.
Which of your works exemplifies your mutant world more?
CF: I think that poster photography, to me, is one of my most important works, because it's an idea I had for a long time. Then, there is a more central work that brings together several techniques in one piece, they are small boxes in which my work can be seen through various techniques, in a period that begins in 2013 and goes until 2018.
So many of these works were being developed in college?
CF: Yes, I never finished the course, deconstructive anatomy studies were my final year project. But, there were works that were developed in college, others not, I just went into the plastic arts course in 2012.
Is this an obsessive theme for you, because it is the only one you have developed?
CF: Yes, I think I have an explanation for myself about it, but I will not explain it, because it is a figurative art and if I explain it a lot I will take people's space so that they themselves can talk and explain the piece they see. Of course, all these works are personal, but art turns out to be always personal.
