Past Residents
Past Resident2022: Luso-American Development Foundation (FLAD)
Henrique Pavão
Artist Henrique Pavão focuses on issues of entropy, loss, anachronism, storytelling, and temporality. Pavão reflects an interest in the use of conceptual movement archaeology, which is linked, according to the artist, to a sophisticated, poetical, and cinematic use of processes. His work traverses various media (sculpture, film/video, photography, and sound), with a focus on each medium’s unique processes and mechanisms as markers of its temporality and history.
Henrique Pavão has exhibited work at Frame Section, Frieze, New York; MAAT – Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, Lisbon; and Culturgest, Porto, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2022 Fall Open Studios
November 18–November 19, 2022
Henrique Pavão, Sea of Tranquility, installation view, 2021, 16mm film, bronze, iron, steel and wood, dimensions variable.
Henrique Pavão, The Lost Longing for Existence, 2019, installation, dimensions variable. Photo by Bruno Lopes.
Henrique Pavão, antes e depois de antes, 2017, video installation, dimensions variable.
Henrique Pavão, Absence Reminders, 2017, installation, 713/16 × 36 × 105/8 in. (19.81 × 91.44 × 26.92 cm). Photo by Henrique Pavão.
Henrique Pavão, Red Flower #3, 2021, sculpture, terracotta, ashes, glass and rammed earth, 711/8 × 2555/8 × 711/8 in. (180.59 × 649.22 × 180.59 cm). Photo by Bruno Lopes.
Residents from Portugal
Past Resident2022: Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin
Cornelia Herfurtner
Cornelia Herfurtner utilizes wood as material and relief as form. Her work often portrays everyday objects on portable shields, taking inspiration from West-Germany legal history, where these objects were negotiated as so-called protective weapons. Herfurtner’s practice raises and answers questions such as “What does it mean for society if the defensive moment of protecting oneself is understood offensive? To protect themselves, what practices of caring for oneself and others do people develop? What is the role of public space in this?”
Cornelia Herfurtner has exhibited work at after the butcher, Berlin; very project space, Berlin; and Mélange, Cologne, among others.
Events & Exhibitions
2022 Fall Open Studios
November 18–November 19, 2022
Cornelia Herfurtner, Handles, 2022, lime wood, 373/8 × 235/8 in. (95 × 59.94 cm).
Cornelia Herfurtner, What is a weapon?, 2021, mixed media (lime wood, construction wood, potato bags, laser print on paper and straw), dimensions variable.
Cornelia Herfurtner, Protective shield (Some of the participants had previously put on safety goggles), 2021, lime wood, 1911/16 × 1511/16 in. (50.04 × 39.88 cm).
Cornelia Herfurtner, Protective shield (Smash capitalism), 2021, lime wood, 291/2 × 1911/16 in. (74.93 × 50.04 cm).
Cornelia Herfurtner, Protective shield (Smash capitalism), 2021, lime wood, 1911/16 × 1511/16 in. (50.04 × 39.88 cm).
Past Resident2022: Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Elza Sile
Elza Sile works with possibility lists (menus) made up of units and their possible outcomes (sets). She creates a vocabulary of psycho-spatial typologies in flow by combining analytic division and mental imagery.
Elza Sile has exhibited work at Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich; Misako & Rosen, Tokyo; and Kunsthalle Zürich, among others.
Elza Sile, International Enemies, 2022, gelatin, graphite pencil lead and acrylic paint on coated stick, dimensions variable.
Elza Sile, fire droplets, 2022, oil paint on aluminium, 37 × 49 in. (93.98 × 124.46 cm).
Elza Sile, seaweed salad on a yard sign, 2022, oil paint on aluminium, 27 × 39 in. (68.58 × 99.06 cm).
Elza Sile, Lush Wheat Star, 2022, gelatin, graphite pencil lead and acrylic paint on coated sticks, dimensions variable.
Elza Sile, Liberated Lands, 2022, gelatin and acrylic paint on coated stick, 21 in. (53.34 cm).
