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VILA NOVA DE GAIA
2019
mapa em prosa
PROSE MAP
ARTIST:
FERNANDA ZOTOVICI
"Mapa em Prosa” is a subjective map of Vila Nova de Gaia different from the objectives and official city maps.
Its plastic accomplishment was realized through a typewriter, attributing words and punctuation marks to some points of reference that the artist toured in the city, and the geographical connection between them.
The map can be read as a concrete poetry of the city besides marking the walk through the connecting lines, and consequently the point of urban corpography.
FERNANDA ZOTOVICI
Mapa em prosa é uma representação subjetiva do mapa da cidade de Vila Nova de Gaia, que se opõe aos mapas objetivos, impessoais e oficiais.
Foi realizado plasticamente através de uma máquina de escrever, atribuindo palavras e sinais de pontuação a alguns pontos de referência que a artista percorreu na cidade, e à conexão geográfica entre eles.
O mapa pode ser lido como uma poesia concreta da cidade além de deixar marcado o caminhar através das linhas de conexão, e consequentemente o apontamento da corpografia urbana.
Fernanda Zotovici is an architect and visual artist who graduated from Mackenzie Presbyterian University (2010-2016)
She studied architecture at Syracuse University in New York for one year during her undergraduate degree (2013-2014) and also Landscape Architecture at SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry in New York for 6 months (2014). Currently, she is doing a master's degree in “Art and Design for the Public Space” at the University of Porto in Portugal, with research related to Performing arts in Urban Spaces.
As an architect, has worked on urban-scale projects at “Tetra Arquitetura”. In “Vapor 324” she collaborated in architectural projects, urban installations, audiovisual installations and set design. She is one of the award-winning authors of the National Public Competition for urban furniture elements of the city of São Paulo, along with the “Vapor 324” team.
As a performer and visual artist, she attended theatre courses at the “Casa de artes Operária” (2010) and studied the theatre technique of the Oppressed (Augusto Boal) with Walmir Pavam and Cristiano Gouveia (2010). Most recently, she studied “Coralidades Performativas” proposed by the group Desvio Coletivo at SP School of Theater, by Marcos Bulhões (Prof. Dr. of the Graduate ECA / USP) (2017). In addition, Fernanda developed the urban performance “Troca de memória” and “SKprint”. Fernanda is also one of the co-founders of the collective “Apartamento 4B” in which they developed the urban performance “Purga" exploring the mobility of women in the public space.
Currently, her research seeks to understand the occupancy of public space, and synthesizes the studies of architecture and urbanism through her artistic practice
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