Célia Bragança
Born in Mozambique, 1965.
Bachelor and Master Degree in Fine Arts, Lisbon University. PhD in Grabado y Estampación at Saint Charles Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Valencia. She is currently a professor at the School of Fine Arts and Design (ESAD), Caldas da Rainha. With several awards and exhibitions in Portugal and Spain and represented in various public and private entities in those countries and also in the United Kingdom.
”The House is like a metaphor for the phenomenological construction of my nomadic identity, shows the enormous complexity in its planning, which part of the analysis of the Being/Habitat, -talks symbolically and draws all the poetic discourse, that is, from the construction of the matrices, records and prints to deepen my concerns, relationships and references, which arise as a direct consequence of the problem of my nomadic identity, due to its special geographical characteristics (a journey from the southern Hemisphere to the northern Hemisphere), from which several cultures, various countries and various abodes / houses are mixed ... in a single idea of travel, (from south to north), as a cartographic system for my visual thinking, which floats biunivocably between the micro poetics and the micro politics of art.
Thus, in my work the Inhabit and the Building are for each other, in a relationship of middle and end. Because building is not only a means to inhabit it, but building is in itself already inhabiting it.”, the artist Célia Bragança, said.
“¿Qué es habitar? ¿En qué medida el construir pertenece al habitar?
Al habitar llegamos, así parece, solamente por medio del construir. Éste, el construir, tiene a aquél, el habitar, como meta.”
HEIDEGGER, Martin: Conferencias y Artículos. Barcelona, 1994, Serbal, 1a ed. P.127 - ISBN: 8476281439 – Deposit: B. 35.857-1997.
