A Bao A Qu
Previous image Next image A Bao A Qu Intervention on inkjet print and gold leaf (imitation), magnets.variable dimensions. 2023 The title of the exhibition is inspired by the literary work The Book of Imaginary Beings by Jorge Luís Borges. In it, the author lists and describes several fantastic creatures created over time through legends, myths, and religions. […]
Family Album
Previous image Next image Family Album All photographs from a family album scraped with a scalpel, Epoxy Resin on Alucobond. 150x268x5,5 cm. 2022 The fascination of a starry sky induces the nostalgic impression of a fleeting occurrence, of the impossibility of permanence in the world. Striving to save itself from evanescence, this awareness of the […]
Imaginary Beings – Tent
Previous Next Imaginary Beings – Tent Inkjet print, metal poles from a camping tent.Dimensions variable. 2022 Adopting part of the title from Jorge Luis Borges’ The book of imaginary beings, Seres imaginários, by Carla Cabanas (1979, Lisbon), is an exhibition-installation that opens the doors, on the one hand, to the private world of the artist’s […]
Imaginary Beings – Gold
Previous Next Imaginary Beings – Gold Intervention and gold leaf (22K) on inkjet print.15 x 22,4 cm. 2022 Adopting part of the title from Jorge Luis Borges’ The book of imaginary beings, Seres imaginários, by Carla Cabanas (1979, Lisbon), is an exhibition-installation that opens the doors, on the one hand, to the private world of […]
Imaginary Beings – Grid
Previous Next Imaginary Beings – Grid Inkjet print and metallic grid. 102 x 142 x 9 cm, 70 x 74 x 7 cm, 66 x 69 x 7 cm. 2022 Adopting part of the title from Jorge Luis Borges’ The book of imaginary beings, Seres imaginários, by Carla Cabanas (1979, Lisbon), is an exhibition-installation that […]
I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping II
Previous Next I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping II Intervention and gold leaf (22K) on color photographs; variable dimensions. 2018 – 2020 The project “I don’t trust myself when I’m sleeping”, currently with two parts, gives continuity to the artist’s enquiries about the places of memory and photography in the construction of identity narratives.The […]
I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping
Previous Next I Don’t Trust Myself When I’m Sleeping Ink on glass, light installation, photographic album, color photographs; variable dimensions. 2018 – 2019 The project “I don’t trust myself when I’m sleeping”, currently with two parts, gives continuity to the artist’s enquiries about the places of memory and photography in the construction of identity narratives.The […]
Eclipse
Previous Next Eclipse Lambda print, light box, metal.30x45x14cm. 2017-2018 In the Eclipse series, initiated in 2017, I use a set of slides rescued from the Flea Market and that, apparently, portrait one specific family’s leisure and celebration moments. The images are presented in light boxes facing the wall, so that the viewer does not have […]
The Mechanics of Absence II
Previous Next The Mechanics of Absence II Installation with synchronised 35mm slide projection, 7 projections, Copper e Tulle. Dimensions variable. 2017 Following another exhibition, held between October and November 2016, Carla Cabanas will present a selection of works that address the […]
Celtis Australis L.
Previous Next Celtis Australis L. Intervention on inkjet print. Variable measures. 2015 This project contains two moments: an exterior and an interior. Both are born from the idea, developed by the artist in residency, whose starting point are the leaves of the trees in the garden. In this process the artist acquired random photographs at […]