GALERIA FILOMENA SOARES

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Untitled, 2025
Cutouts from architecture magazines and offset paper
26 x 50 cm
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Fernanda Fragateiro‘s (Portugal, 1962) practice is deeply engaged with modernist histories, archives, and the social and political implications of spaces. Fragateiro frequently creates site-specific sculptures and architectural interventions—often subtle modifications to existing landscapes or structures—that reveal histories, thresholds, and the overlooked elements of past construction and transformation. Her work spans sculpture, installation, public works, and collaborations with architects, landscape architects, and performers.

The series Landscape Drawing is created using architectural magazines and colored paper. These magazines present both text and images of the concrete world, often revealing discoveries of the new and the unknown. At times, they evoke a sense of wonder yet, ultimately, they remain paper, to be collected or discarded. The works, composed of old publications cut into thin layers, treat books and archives in an almost archaeological way: cutting, layering, and transforming them. This process is an act of reconstructing meaning— digging through cultural sediments to reshape them into new spatial forms.