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Lugalbanda is a collaborative project of Claudia Cid and Elsa Gomes who combine ceramics and paintings to create their artworks. They met in 2015 in Lisbon at a master’s degree both were doing in painting. Claudia and Elsa started by sharing the same atelier where each developed their individual art projects. Eventually, the atelier became a place of dialogue where both found they shared the same doubts and interests, leading into the creation of Lugalbanda.
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I feel much more compelled to create with my hands on the matter than on the computer. There's something about touching and the physical object that gives me more of a sense of living.
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— Lugalbanda
Their works question the relations and boundaries between art and life, between the artistic and the useful object, between the roles of the artist and the artisan, and the concern about the commodification of life, time and art.
“We think that it is very difficult to have a firm definition of what things are: useful or useless, art or crafts. We are interested in this dissolution of concepts, which we think keeps alive the strangeness and beauty of life and its objects.”, say the artists.
Photo by Marta Cruz
Hors Lits
Hors Lits was a number of performances that happened in four houses across Lisbon as a part of a sensitive approach of rewriting the intimate by opening alternative spaces between artists, inhabitants and spectators.
In a collaboration with JoyFoodExperiences, the performance consisted in a mixture of dishes, created by JoyFoodExperiences, and crafts, created by Lugalbanda, on which the dishes were served. Both wanted to question the audience on “what is that in front of you?”and how would they react upon such a question. Would they just watch? Would they touch the pieces? Would they eat the food?
Hors Lits by Elisabete Magalhães
Língua sem prova
Língua sem prova was an exhibition that questioned what can be considered as a useful or aartistic object and how the public perception changes depending on the space where each piece is being displayed.
It combined ceramic pieces with ambiguous purposes and ceramic cracks, turning them into painting frames from a piece that fell and broke. Claudia and Elsa went a step further and also created a painting designed to be dressed.
Língua sem Prova by LugalBanda
Lugalbanda teamed with Fed by Venus to create Olhos Pescadores an exhibition organized by Tânia Geiroto Marcelino. Olhos pescadores is a piece by Lugalbanda with activation and performance by Fed by Venus. This exhibition debuts on the 8th January at 4pm, in Rua das Gaivotas and it will be open until 27th of January, from Tuesdays to Saturdays (3-7PM).
This article was written by João Martins, edited & backoffice by Nicole Gonçalves
featuring the episodes of
Disconnection also directed by João Martins.
Proofreading and translation of the video
and this article by Eva Magro.
First published on October 13th.
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