Dalila Gonçalves

DALILA GONÇALVES (Castelo de Paiva, Portugal, 1982).
"Kneaned Memory", 2012.
Ceramic, tile and concrete.
Unique piece.
Work exhibited in:-Kubic Gallery, "Dalila Gonçalves. Procedere é Processo", Oporto 2012."
Measurements: 30 x 50 x 100 cm.

"Kneaned Memory" is one of the most representative proposals of the Portuguese artist Dalila Gonçalves. In this piece she reflects on the coexistence between traditional craftsmanship and contemporary art by means of cement stones to which she adjusts ceramic pieces painted in the traditional Portuguese way. The exhibition was presented as an installation in Blackenberge Square (Belgium) during the 2012 Beaufort Triennale. "Kneaned Memory" has traveled to different cities around the world, establishing intercultural dialogues. From the experimental game, the permeability of materials and the processes of artistic practice, Dalila delves into the relationship between memory and oblivion.

Dalila Gonçalves lives and works in Porto. She has a degree in Fine Arts-Painting (2005). Master in Visual Arts Teaching (2009) by FBAUP and FPCEUP (University of Porto 2009). In 2008 she was selected for the 2nd edition of the Photography Course of the Gulbenkian Creativity and Artistic Creation Program. Between 2010 and 2011 she worked in Barcelona in the atelier of artist Ignasi Aballí as a fellow of the Inov-art program. She was artist in residence at the KulturKontakt Program, Vienna, Austria (2017); Inclusartiz Residency, Rio de Janeiro (2014); Pivô- Arte e Pesquisa Residency, São Paulo (2018); Marso Foundation, Mexico DF 2020, among others. She exhibits regularly in Institutions and galleries in different countries of Europe and South America. Countries where she is represented in public and private collections. She presented her work, among other fairs, at Arco Madrid (soloproject); Zona MACO, Mexico (soloproject); ArcoLisboa; ArteRio and SPArte (soloproject) Brazil; ArtBO, Colombia; ArtLima-Peru; Vienna Artfair, Austria; Artissima, Italy or Untitled Miami (USA).

In the words of the artist, "In my work there is a process of dissection, of discovery of objects, materials, materials in all their layers until I manage to see them from the inside. I speak of a clearing sometimes of their plasticity, sometimes of their history, sometimes of their function, sometimes of everything simultaneously. Often I do this through a process of poetic reorganization of the processes of collecting, systematizing and inventorying everyday materials and materials altered by industrial, natural, chronological and atmospheric processes - I emphasize their singularities, what characterizes them and makes them unique. Sometimes I freeze them in isolation in a specific state of the analysis process; other times, in a kind of experimental game, putting them in dialogue with other objects, I create narratives that can be documentary or fictional".