Plastic Bitch
Cláudia Clemente
Exhibition, MIRA FORUM
14 of September 2024—09 of November 2024
Self-representation in art is a recurring theme, both in painting and photography. Following in the steps of artists such as Nan Goldin, Cindy Sherman and Jo Spence, I use my body as a support and subject, the raw material for creating characters.
My photographic work consists of revisiting the self-portrait, trying to give it a personal and contemporary stamp, to awaken the conscience and (self) critical judgement of those who see it.
As I’m developing a thesis on the Mirror in Art, my series of self-portraits, which began in 2010, are both a starting point for theoretical research and a practical extension of it. Photography - portraits - are a mirror in which the beholder projects himself and sees himself.
For Francesco Casetti, the mirror can both fascinate and frighten: the viewer is horrified when he recognises himself in an image for the first time.
Irigaray doesn’t see himself in Lacan’s flat mirror, and proposes a mirror model (speculum) that reveals the interiority of the spectator. It is in this interiority/exteriority relationship that the paradox of the mirror is realised. My art rejects the passivity of the viewer, but rather encourages them to intervene.
Plastic Bitch is the mirror of the current situation - unbridled consumerism, extreme pollution, depletion of natural resources, exacerbated rubbish production - the uncomfortable mirror in which we see reflected what we, as a society, have become: plastic bitches.
PROGRAMME
November 9 | 3pm
Talk with Cláudia Clemente
www.claudiaclemente.org
This exhibition is part of the Invisibilities and Drifts project.
Support República Portuguesa | DGARTES
Biographical Note
Born in Porto in 1970. Lives and works in Lisbon. Film and television directing degree, Restart, Lisbon. Screenwriting, London Film School/ Gulbenkian. Directing, Micro Obert, Barcelona.
Degree in Architecture, F.A.U.P., Porto.
BOOKS
Sonata para Olvido, short stories, ed. Húmus, 2021 | Tatuagens de Luz, biografia, ed. Documenta, 2020. | Mais um dia na terra do nunca, short stories, ed. Húmus, 2020 | A preto e branco, contos, ed. Bookbuilders, 2018 | Playing with myself, photography, ed. Bluebook, June 2017 | A casa azul, romance, ed. Planeta, 2015. | Londres, play, Theatre Grand Prize 2011 S.P.A./Teatro Aberto 2011 ed.Imp. Nac. Casa da Moeda/S.P.A., 2011 | A fábrica da noite, short stories, ed. Ulisseia, 2010 – Plano Nacional de Leitura 2013 | O caderno negro, short stories, ed. Tinta Permanente, 2003.
FILMS (screenplay and direction)
Quatro mulheres à beira da água, 70’, 2023 | Esperança, telefilm, 2022 | O dia em que as cartas pararam, telefilm, 2017 | Blind Date, short film, 2014 | O retrato, short film, 2014 | A casa azul, short film, 2012 | A outra, short film, 2009 | A
mulher morena, short film, 2007 | A fábrica, short film, 2007 | & etc., 2007 - Tóbis Award, Best National Short Film, DOCLISBOA. Caixa Geral Depósitos Award, Best National Film, IMAGO.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS
Biblioteca UAlg – April 2023 | Espaço Cossoul – June 2019 | Espaço Espelho d’ Água – June 2017 | Galeria Municipal – S. Miguel, Açores – January 2017 | C.A.A.A., Guimarães – September – October 2015 | C.C.C., Torres Vedras, March – May 2015 | MIRA FORUM, Porto, January – February 2015 | Galeria Artinzo, Lisboa, September – October 2014
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