Carla Cruz

Since 2020, Carla Cruz and Cláudia Lopes have been developing joint reflections that focus on issues such as time, circularity, marks, fragments, sedimentation, natural and transformed landscapes, and crossed temporalities. These are simultaneously plastic and conceptual explorations. In a mutual interest in moldable and organic materials, as well as an interest in non-urban territories, ideas related to time and our relatively ephemeral relationship with it in comparison with objects, places, and landscapes. The body of work developed so far reflects the permanent dialogue between Carla Cruz and Cláudia Lopes and their reflections. For the Casa Museu Júlio Dinis, the artists broadened the dialogue and invited the American writer Avery F Gordon. The exhibition will be the result of this dialogue, which will start from premises such as traces of the domestic, emotional landscapes, sedimentary materialities, and human and geological temporalities, using means such as drawing, sculpture, photography, and video.