Eunice Artur
Visual ArtistEunice Artur is a Portuguese visual artist and performer.
Her research involves drawing, sound art, photography, video, sculpture, installation, graphic notation and performance. She usually works in partnership with musicians, resulting in performances, exploring the relationship and the fusion of sound and drawing through graphic notation.
My work crosses the concept of wandering.
At the heart of my research is the existence related to an intimacy which generates encounters and repetitions about travel and drawing. A drawing that in itself wants "error"(‘errare’).
— Eunice Artur
3 questions for Eunice
Where in the world is the biggest systemic fault?
Waters that spread through the wide plates of divergent or convergent movements, areas of convergence between several of them, from the Pacific body running around the circle, to a new Pacific. A plate can harbour another plate, just as the living body harbours another living body. Bring into focus the imperfect knowledge, the predictability of old paradigms. This is how some plates move, some on top, others mostly in the dark.
What would be the shape of an earthquake?
Trembling. Internal visibility of the planet. Movement. Release and pressure. To those who arrive by sea, others by land. Concussions and scarlet anchors measured in gnawed notation, dynamically knitted shapes and webs.
What should we protect?
The Living-books-body-rock-animal.
How we met Eunice
We ran an open call from the 24th of May to the 18th of June 2021.
We selected eleven projects that explore contemporary discontinuities using the medium of text, photography, illustration or drawing.
Eunice Artur submitted the project Livro Animal which was selected to be included and published in the first issue of chumbo — our printed magazine dedicated to creative research.