Patrícia Garrido
Learn about the artist's universe through a text accompanied by a selection of works from the exhibition “All I want – Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020”
By Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Text by Lígia Afonso / Plano Nacional das Artes
In O prazer é todo meu [The pleasure is all mine], Patrícia Garrido presents a series of voluptuous objects modelled from the forms of her own body and coated with the lush shades of her makeup. Here she embarks on a project of identity and affirmation that unfolds in the form of installations, objects and videos.
Developing her work from a basis in her own personal experience, the artist performs an ongoing daily collection of found materials which interest her only "insofar as they bring a piece of real life with them", going on to reorder and transform these materials into volumes with a strong sculptural presence, such as compressed cubes or large floor coverings.
The pleasure is all mine V (1994) by Patrícia GarridoOriginal Source: Collection Patrícia Garrido
The pleasure is all mine V, 1994
Polyester, silicone, iron
105 x 120 x 92 cm
Collection Patrícia Garrido
The pleasure is all mine II (1994) by Patrícia GarridoOriginal Source: Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
The pleasure is all mine II, 1994
Polyester, silicone, iron
67 x 90 x 47 cm
Fundação de Serralves – Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, inv. FS 0257
Furniture to the cube (A.L.T.) (2013) by Patrícia GarridoOriginal Source: Collection Patrícia Garrido
Furniture to the cube (A.L.T.), 2013
Wood, iron fittings and glue
95 x 95 x 95 cm
Collection Patrícia Garrido
While developing her work, Patrícia Garrido dedicates herself to obsessive processes of recording, measurement, quantification and repetition, listing everything she has ingested during two weeks, all the clothes she has owned in a given period, or the amount of steps she has taken inside until completing a kilometre. Eminently performative and suggestive, her work triggers abstract and mathematical concepts such as geometry, plane, module and distance.
Departing always from a notion of herself and her body as the measure of all things, the artist makes her physical, subjective and intellectual experiences in her studio, at home or with her friends into the central theme of her work.
28 metres (in 63 parts) (2004) by Patrícia GarridoOriginal Source: Collection Patrícia Garrido
28 metres (in 63 parts), 2004
Rubber, wire
70 x ø 27 cm
Collection Patrícia Garrido
Untitled (Wood) (1994) by Patrícia GarridoOriginal Source: Collection Patrícia Garrido
Untitled (Wood), 1994
Enamel, wood, formica, iron fittings and glue
90 x 90 x 90 cm
Collection Patrícia Garrido
Learn more about the artist:
Exposição Patricia Garrido | Galeria Miguel Nabino (em português)
Exposição «Mais do mesmo», Patrícia Garrido | Galeria Miguel Nabinho (em português)
Selection of works presented at the exhibition All I want: Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020, in its first moment at Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, within the scope of the cultural program that takes place in parallel to the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union 2021.
Exhibition organized by the Portuguese Ministry of Culture, Directorate-General for Cultural Heritage (DGPC) and the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, in co-production with the Center of Contemporary Creation Olivier Debré, Tours, and with the collaboration of the Plano Nacional das Artes (Portugal).
Curators:
Helena de Freitas and Bruno Marchand
Text by Lígia Afonso / Plano Nacional das Artes
Selection of online resources Maria de Brito Matias
Learn more about Patrícia Garrido's works presented in the context of this exhibition:
All I want: Feminine Plural
All I want: The House
