Blue Memories Part.1
Cyanotype photography on 20 handmade ceramic tiles
60 x 80 cm, 2021
Support: Zaratan Residency Air Program
BLUE MEMORIES PART.2
CYANOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHY and drawing ON HANDMADE CERAMIC broken TILES
variable dimensions, 2021
SUPPORT: ZARATAN RESIDENCY AIR PROGRAM
Notes towards some brief moments caught on camera
audio recording, cyanotype photography and ink on paper
5’57’’ loop
SUPPORT: ZARATAN RESIDENCY AIR PROGRAM
As a photographic diary, during her residency in Lisbon, the artist documented her exploration of the city and the small events happening: a man walks proudly holding a black kitten on his shoulder, a woman cries and pulls her friend’s shirt on a dizzying staircase; an old man smokes an extraordinary large pipe. A reflection; a detail; an atmosphere.
As if the walls could see, Marcy Petit composes and fragments -in space and time- these photographs on tiles, reinterpreting traditional Portuguese “azulejos” through the cyanotype technique applied to handmade ceramics.
The installation is divided in two parts. The first piece is a visual reinterpretation of these sharp and precise moments, displayed chronologically, each tile is a blue photography of a single event. The second part represents a blur and broken single composition, mixing photography and drawing. Here the artist uses the symbolism of the abandoned buildings and ruins of Lisbon as a metaphor of the memory, where the image is exploding in fragments on purposely broken tiles.
Ultimately Blues Memories reflects on the value and beauty of the instantaneity of a moment, but also its fragility and ephemerality. It freezes these events of live poetry before they turn to dust into the ruin of our personal memory.
Acknowledgment to Caulino Ceramics for helping with the production of the tiles.
Zaratan AIR | Open Studio
Artist talk l Marcy Petit
SUPPORT | República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes
During this encounter Marcy Petit will introduce briefly her artistic practices and will give us an insight into the exhibitions simultaneously open in the gallery space at Zaratan.