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Tiles Museum, Xabregas, Lisbon, Portugal

EXPOSITION PRESENTATION

Christina Bollborea's works recover, exploring the plasticity of clay to compose carpets and fabrics, richly interlaced. The manner in with these objects are arranged and juxtaposed within the space of thus exhibition evokes the image of Islamic fairs, those places representing the games of memories connected to childhood and youth, the miraculous space where the strewn soft pillows invite us stop, sit down and listen.

The journey through memory expands upon the reasons designed and incised by an unknown travel, and on his impressions of this place, sumptuous images from those far off fairs and their products.The drawings travel through time and impress us, immortalised in the immutability of matter and the silence of images, and the residual chromatics becomes the testimony of vivid and rich colours that once covered them.

Among nowadays immutable fragility of these memories, architectural testimonials arise from the place to place, ruins of lost spaces. The bright floors reflects on the earth the sky brilliancy, the remains of a wall and even a column, the axial element of a space and the only survivor of a temple forgotten today.

The magic lived formerly in this space. Present in elaborate and strange rings, fascinating pieces where found shelter the capricious djinn.

BIOGRAFIA

As obras de Cristina Bolborea estão organizadas em temas com nomes enigmáticos (Olho do furacão, Tapetes dos mestres, Agulhas de cipreste, Chamo-me turquesa ou Jóias de caixa negra).

O modo como estes objectos se dispõem e justapõem no espaço desta exposição evoca a imagem dos mercados islâmicos, é o lugar do maravilhoso onde têm lugar os contos exóticos de Scherazade…

Ceramista com vasta experiência e perícia artística, Cristina Bolborea “não se entrega cegamente à boa vontade do Deus do Fogo”. Os seus tapetes, as agulhas de ciprestes, os seus fantasmas literários ou mitológicos, são exactamente o que ela quis que fossem: faixas rumorejantes de tecido, placas envidraçadas com cheiro a resina, espíritos voláteis fechados na armadura da cerâmica.