Oil on wood
122cm x 161cm x 8cm
2021

AIRBAG serie

""The artwork to which Teresa Murta has accustomed us, persists in the figurative modelling of soul elements that presuppose our curious gaze and our own interpretation. These open dialogues between the artist and the work go beyond their solitary moment - "beauty cannot reproduce itself, it must be reproduced" (Jean Lescure), and result in a reflection of astonishment in the viewer.

AIRBAG is an intoxicated statement about the control and acceptance of the unknown, the responsibility of being in charge of a direction that refers to the terrible consternation of the void. Murta suggests to us a dripping of strong oneiric influence of automatic painting which she identifies as her action painting.

In this dialogue of intuitive experimentation by Teresa, art frees itself from the impositions of logic and reason and goes beyond everyday consciousness, where beauty is a paradox, which arises not only from the gathering of disparate elements, but from the strength of the moments that precede the representation on canvas. She models them in her painting according to her will, through plasticity and transparency, where each layer reflects change and movement and even pause and emptiness, which the artist imposes as a moment of observation. The wonder of Murta emerges from everyday life and is revealed to us without any pyrotechnics.

A world of reflections and essays to create a reality, where yesterday, today and tomorrow are always the present time, the only possible time in Teresa Murta's artwork.
“If everything is real... then nothing is real as well” – The Angriest Dog in the World, 1973 David Lynch.""

Mercedes Cerón, art director

Fuel

who am I?!

This is a couple in love, lying on the sofa in a time that recalls the war years. This painting was made during the curfew period in the covid pandemic.

Gli amanti

The Time-Light Map was a one year project exploring the nature of memory. 

It consists of a physical model made up of seven layers, each representing a different element of our physical world: 
air - ground - fire - gravity - duality - water - entropy 

Each completed layer was photographed, and then incorporated into the construction of subsequent layers. The images are, therefore, the surviving representations of the model at each stage of its development (except the final one). 

Made of clear acrylic and white card, the model is almost entirely transparent. The colors depicted in the images were generated from the reflection and refraction of natural light. They were transitory and dependent on the quality of light, the weather, the time of day and the season when they were photographed. 

The images represent fragments of time — memories. 

Time-Light Map | Layer 5: Duality [1] 

Spaghetti Mouth 

2016

sponge recycled, hot glue
width: 97 cm, other dimensions are dependent on the exposure

“Lubię cukierki, nawet kiedy smakują jak kamyki”
[“I like sweets, even when they taste like pebbles”]
Ksiągarnia/Wystawa, Krakow

curators: Vera Zalutskaya, Piotr Policht, Agata Jabłońska, 
	     Anna Gil, Marta Kuźmińska

Rolled sponge balot consists of a relief modules, which in their dimensions are based on real dimensions side face (one side of the brick). Glued together with shorter side reach stripes approx. 35 meters, which in turn create pavement width approx. 97 cm. The color depends on the degree 
of soiling or the original shade of recycled upholstery sponge.

Through this realization I wanted to catch the excess, collect, amass, organize, and give a new meaning to what human being has abandoned and treated as waste. The object follows from 
a deep need to get order in private space, as well as social.

EXPOSURE - Belot partially developed
	
The installation, like a red carpet unfolds before the viewer. He moves about the way of life, join to the unknown path, follow it along, measuring the obstacles and opportunities to explore the further potential. The confrontation with the viewer, developed fragment is an invitation to discover its individual components.
I care for unique experience of the matter, on re-contact with her and getting to know her again.
	
I put the question: where are we going [in this way]? Are the goal important? Is the end, the point where we want to stay? Where is the end of the search? E.t.c.

ASPECT

10 Year Plan is the only plan you will need.   A popular doodle by @stevexoh that has sold hundreds of copies as a print.

Materials: acrylic pens on paper.

10 Year Plan

Photography and Digital. 1184 × 1013

Nightmare

Induced Insecurities
2021
91.4 cm x 152.4 cm
Emulsions, Acrylics, Oil Sticks and Oil Pastels on Canvas

Induced Insecurities

Ultimately the idea behind “Banded Blue” is beauty, desire, over-consumption and the effects climate change has had on pollinators. Over the last decade their habitats and populations have been in steep decline across the globe. Pollinators are considered keystone species because their survival is vital to the survival of other species. They help to maintain healthy ecosystems, essential for plant reproduction, and genetic diversity in the plants they pollinate.

Banded Blue

Moving sculpture with my own accordion music

Fall in…, these two words have a lot of very different meanings: fall into somewhere; fall in love; to begin to participate in something, to become organized in a particular way; to experience a significant, usually unpleasant, change in state, to obtain something, typically unexpectedly or with little effort…

With these two figures one of these is happening, right now. Which one? Are they helping each other or are they fighting?

Made from found stuff, a given vinyl record and wire.

Fall In

Sisterhood

blue and yellow

Thoughts

Magnetic, serene and enlightened, GAMATA meditates imperturbably, its empty center is pure potentiality.

GAMATA

Humans always knew that their existence on planet earth, like the nonhumans organisms, is temporary. But since the emergence of patriarchy, the natural power structure in human eyes has taken turn. Nowadays, the human society no longer passively submits to the presence of Nature but rather takes the control of Nature on its own behalf. As Aristotle claimed, on earth, as on Mount Olympus, the man is the true creator—form, number, and movement—all come from him.
Through embroidery, writing, and sound, POST COΪTUM OMNE ANIMAL TRISTE examines the power structure between the human and the nonhuman. It suggests that only by reviving our mortality salience can we imagine alternative life philosophies, self-perceptions, and ways of being.

white piece
Handmade Embroidery
Cotton on Natural Linen
H.120 x W.50 cm

black piece
Handmade Embroidery
Cotton on Natural Linen
H.120 x W.50 cm

spoken word
00:05:02

Link: https://anisiaaffek.com/Post-Coitum-Omne-Animal-Triste



Post Coïtum Omne Animal Triste

Oil on canvas / Size: 70x100cm (27,5’’x39’’)  
Loved the theme and perspective on this one. It has an erotic feeling and was a pleasure to paint. 

Tootsies

Acrylic gesso and acrylic paint on inkjet printed rough 140gr/m² book printing paper
90 x 90 cm | 35.4 X 35.4 in

A shape of a body that cannot be said if it is formed by or divided into several parts. This new fragmented entity organized in an orthogonal composition, following the limits of the paper's surface, presents disruptions emanating from its body. They are like waves that propagate in the apparent black void, they want to extend through the vastness, but are interrupted along the path of light and consciousness.

DISRUPTED WAVES, 2020

Video loop installation, 2'19", color, sound.
Sound Design by Rafael Estrela

EXHIBITIONS
June 2020, 48 Stunden Neukölln Art Festival. Online video streaming and solo physical show, Gelegenheiten, Berlin-Neukölln. 
https://vimeo.com/433630898

The video installation is motivated by a critical examination of current social, political, and ecological paradigms and tries to awaken individual consciences, encouraging the reflection on profound future changes. Berlin is a city with an active voice, constantly questioning current models, not only through public demonstrations but also through private gestures, offering the ideal stage for a discussion of values, and the fundamental tools and openness to criticize our society. The artwork idea occurs after reading the book “Plantation Memories. Episodes of Daily Racism”, UNRAST VERLAG, 2018, by Grada Kilomba. A Portuguese writer, psychologist, and interdisciplinary artist, living in Berlin, whose works critically examine racism and post-colonialism, among other subjects. In this book, it is evident that, albeit often in a disguised way, false paradigms are still transmitted today as truths, and there is an urgent need to see the world with a critical sense. This cathartic experience triggers a personal reflection transmitted through this video installation. It is, therefore, a critique of white post-colonial society, so-called developed, and yet, based in an economy of inequalities, of induced power stratagems exploiting people and countries in an unfavorable situation, and based on the unsustainable use of environmental resources. The ongoing technological development, presented as a regulator of social equality, is, nevertheless, used to perpetuate ideologies of the past, and the apparent promising Boom is, in reality, a way of leaving us blind.
The installation aims to draw attention and discuss global issues, with repercussions at local and individual levels. Not only the human tragedy of refugee immigration, the constant violation of human rights throughout the world, the inevitable reality of climate change, but also the growing acceptance and strengthening of the far-right policies, such as in Germany the Alternative für Deutschland, that put at risk social and democratic values, namely, the rights of the LGBTQ+ community. The installation is presented at the festival in the form of a video, depicting a three-dimensional structure, in which moving images and repetitive sounds similar to mantras surround the viewer, creating an increasing atmosphere of introspection, motivating states of meditation, and seeking to capture the moment of self-awareness.Two appropriation states are present in the installation. In the first part, looking at the performance staged by two blindfolded characters, the observer has the growing sensation of becoming the protagonist of the action, until disturbing flashes of images appear, followed by total darkness, allowing a complete immersion in the experience. The flash images are intentionally distorted and inverted. They are negatives, alien to the reality of the characters presented in the video. They work as an instrument to generate a feeling of anguish in the viewer. Rather than pointing exact issues, they intend to allow free interpretation, alerting to the fact that we all have a vital role in a future change.

BIG WHITE LIES, 2020

2020 - Coloured pencil on paper

This project is an exploration of modern masculinity. Jonas, pictured on his own, partly nude and exposed speaks of isolation and vulnerability at its core. The red-hued figures featuring in my work present more as alien characters, rather than everyday humans you’d meet on the street – slightly too perfect, almost artificial, strangely unfamiliar. By giving my characters real-life names, I create a sense of intimacy between the character and the viewer – it’s an invitation to connect to the human inside the image and what their story could be.

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