This presentation focuses on the concepts of island and seed to further explore the vibrational aspect of time as well as its cyclicity. The island is thought of through the lens of Ogawa’s book The memory Police. An isolated place where people are obliged to forget things and move on, to the point of letting go everything that makes them human. For those unable to do so, hiding in the dark is the only way to resist, creating underground bubbles of memory, waiting for the right time to come to the light. Taking the potency aspect of this resistance we link it to the seed — a capsule of possible events waiting for an opportunity to unfold. Memory and potency feed the past and the future resonating change and repetition.
While looking at a peach seed in the summer of 2022, drawing it to make sense of its complexity and texture I encountered an island with invisible threads linked to the past and the future. In an attempt to register change, I kept two peaches for two years in glass domes. They became my islands, preserved from most of the outside interference. I took photographs of the peaches while they gave place to mold and fungi, bubbles and liquids, waiting for the time when the seed structure will show.
The result of this process is a series of black and white photographs, drawings and short animated clips that bring together representations of time and their permutability.
Raquel Felgueiras
Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, i2ADS
Raquel Felgueiras is a visual artist with a background in Fine Arts - Painting, Drawing and Animation.Her short animated films have been selected for several international animation film festivals and awarded with the “Young Portuguese Director” prize at CINANIMA 2012, among other prizes. Raquel has worked as Artist-researcher at Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences of the University of Porto.Her artistic work was selected for exhibitions in London and throughout Portugal. She is currently a PhD candidate at FBAUP with a scholarship from FCT.