GALERIA VERA CORTÊS

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Outra de uma tábua rio, 2024
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Armanda Duarte (Praia do Ribatejo, 1961) studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, where she lives and works.
The specificity of the place is so decisive in Armanda Duarte’s work that her artistic proposals are made based on its observation and analysis. The artist observes the characteristics and details of each Context in order to find the essence from which she will conduct the creative process until the moment the work is received.
Her spatial poetics integrates drawing, sculpture, installation and architecture, provoking subtle and intimate experiences.
Armanda produces stripped-down, austere and delicate stagings that are the result of manipulating and composing everyday objects. In her work, these objects and simple gestures are subjected to repetitive and systematic processes, which involve conceptualising the action, defining research criteria, standardising collection procedures and rigorous selection.