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Blush
KUBIKULO - Project Room
Porto, Portugal
https://www.kubikgallery.com/kubikulo.html
Tapeçaria e cerâmica
2020
© Rita Castro
“If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale white shown”
William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I, Scene 2, 1597
Blush encontra no pigmento da maquilhagem um sentido político, na medida em que participa de uma operação simbólica e ritualística. Seja em contextos ocidentais (na esfera individual, no teatro...), bem como em contextos não-ocidentais (pintura corporal nas culturas indígenas), a maquilhagem é a expressão de uma fantasia, de um disfarce, de um artifício, de uma ação fake. É nesta “cosmética” conferida pelo pigmento que uma “máscara” identitária é construída.
Blush
KUBIKULO - Project Room
Oporto, Portugal
https://www.kubikgallery.com/kubikulo.html
Tapestry and ceramics
2020
© Rita Castro
“If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale white shown”
William Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I, Scene 2, 1597
Blush finds a political meaning in make-up pigment, in the sense that engages in a symbolic and ritualistic operation. Being in Western contexts (in the individual sphere, in theatre…) as well as in non-western contexts (body paintings in indigenous cultures), make-up is the expression of a fantasy, of a disguise, of an artifice, of a fake action. Is within this “cosmetic” given by the pigment that an identity “mask” is built.
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