FRAGMENTS, 2023
Transforming found material, into objects that challenge their own materiality.
“FRAGMENT #2”, 2023. XIV BIENAL DE PINTURA DO EIXO ATLÂNTICO
By working with found materials such as cardboard, paper and glass, Kideo Kidō adds new narratives, creating alternative visions and a new dialogue with these materials. The composition is a guiding line that takes the viewer to a personal journey of an imaginary world as if sharing memories together.
The color palette assumes a unifying element in this series of works. Colorful textures were created through a process of overlapping layers of elements, which were then torn spontaneously. This is the artist’s most used technique throughout her work. The materials are literally cut, torn, glued and overlapped, during an intuitive creation process.
“FRAGMENT #5”, 2023. MUSEU MUNICIPAL DE ESPINHO. Photo by Filipe Couto, Courtesy of Câmara Municipal de Espinho
In Fragment #6 the viewer is invited to enter a (dis)organized composition where the dominant blue is intersected by a sequence of dots and white lines. Another reading of something that we think is acquired, where the layer that overlaps can represent, here, the element that gives it a new meaning.
A new meaning is also presented in Fragment #10, a meticulous work that brings together synthetic glass and aluminum, which can undergo constant mutations. The layers of glass used, almost as if they represented this destiny that they say is traced, can be modeled and rotated by the viewer, through an element that brings them all together in a single piece.
“FRAGMENT #6”, 2023. MUSEU MUNICIPAL DE ESPINHO. Photo by Filipe Couto, Courtesy of Câmara Municipal de Espinho
“FUNDAMENTALS OF ARTISTIC PRACTICES (IN MY DREAMS)”, 2023. MUSEU MUNICIPAL DE ESPINHO. Photo by Filipe Couto, Courtesy of Câmara Municipal de Espinho
“FRAGMENT #10”, 2023. MUSEU MUNICIPAL DE ESPINHO. Photo by Filipe Couto, Courtesy of Câmara Municipal de Espinho
Highway Sign reflects on how subversive art, made in public and urban environments, can be a driver of critical thinking about today’s society. What art is made in less visible media? What languages emerge from these places? What is the direction of this less institutional view of society? With a free approach, the viewer is confronted here with a set of similar forms, with different directions, creating a plot that enhances different readings. Is it a code? A set of words? Symbols? Or a simple daydream?
