Notes from the Capital
Olga Balema proposes fictional anatomies as metaphors for the permeability between the environment and the body, two entities which are mutually inextricable. Here, the artist has designed a pseudo-organic sculpture that hovers between the two- and three-dimensional. Torn flesh hangs from the metallic skeleton of Notes from the Capital, its membrane-like material evoking both the body and the clothes that adorn it. A deflated sheath seems to shed its substance, while the strange prostrate composition of Become a Stranger to Yourself, still retaining its substance, comes alive with autonomous mutations. Evocative masses and images float freely about, and iron turns to rust, staining water with a blood-orange hue. Olga Balema invites viewers to penetrate the body with their gaze and discover, as in this protective pod, what constitutes it and what contaminates it.
Exhibitions
Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto (Portugal)
from 09 Jun to 19 Aug 2018