Inês Coelho da Silva
Retrato (um sofá ou dois) / Portrait (a sofa or two), 2021
Chilli peppers, cotton threads, wood
H variable x W 16 x D 16 cm
My works are portraits. Within them, intimate emotions, experiences, sensations and perspectives share ground through silence and fragility, in impermanent configurations. There is not an intention to communicate nor to say anything. Instead, there is a demand for the act of witnessing, of being physically and emotionally present in time and space. Nothing is anticipated or expected and there is never a single reading. I position my works for the other, for their intimate space and personal narratives.
Inês Coelho da Silva
Inês was born in 1996 in Fiães, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal. She lives and works in London, United Kingdom. She is developing her academic and artistic research within the Master of Arts in Sculpture program of the Royal College of Art, complementing her bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts – Sculpture of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto. Since 2015, Inês has been exhibiting in solo and group shows in Portugal and abroad, participated in artist residencies and collaborated in a number of publications. Her work is represented in multiple private and public collections.
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