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Once There Was and Once There Was Not
Site-specific installation, hand produced terracotta tiles, 2024
Biennale A Dobradiça – Encontros contemporâneos, Mação, Portugal, 2023
Guest curated by Cécile Bourne-Farrell
The piece, sited in the footprint of a former church hospital, is made up of multiple hand-made tiles, collectively produced with local people. We worked with the last remaining factory in Portugal that uses moulds to hand-make bricks and tiles from locally sourced clay using a wood-fired kiln.
The collective production of the tiles, through a workshop I led during the festival in 2023, follows other of my recent works that focus on intergenerational forms of knowledge exchange. The shape of the tile references a form found in human and animal architecture; protection and thermoregulation for buildings and bodies.