The series of pieces presented in New Babylons stem from a collection of industrial waste, particularly scraps of printed paper from graphic companies, resulting from the cutouts and normal adjusting processes that publications undergo after being printed. Each batch of this waste contains a draw...
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The series of pieces presented in New Babylons stem from a collection of industrial waste, particularly scraps of printed paper from graphic companies, resulting from the cutouts and normal adjusting processes that publications undergo after being printed. Each batch of this waste contains a drawing, a pattern, a form that Mafalda Santos meticulously combines in dynamic supports, that expand her from the narrower field of painting or drawing. The process takes place in the imperturbable privacy of the studio, faithfully characterizing the artist`s journey, a constant retreat from the chaos of big cities leading her to the Alentejo and more recently the Alto Minho region. Mafalda Santos` work carries an originality that combines the demands of the trace with color semiotics which prevail in the series that constitute “Notebooks and Victories”, symptomatic of the variations within her language and the evolution of her “almost” calligraphy.
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