Fragmented Cartography
Créditos: André Matos.
March - October 2025
Spinning, felting, sewing, embroidery, and crochet using Algarve churra wool and cotton sheets
148 × 327 × 9 cm
Fragmented Cartography traces an intimate and irregular map, made of threads, fragments, and memories. Between the raw Algarve wool and pieces of an inherited family sheet, the presence of textiles emerges as a link between generations. The work reveals internal paths that are inscribed in gesture and time, where matter fragments and then recomposes itself into more expansive forms. Each layer evokes a sensitive topography of discoveries, in which the body of the work holds traces of memory and reinvention—a fragmented cartography, but whole in its process of discovery.
The piece was developed during the six months of the Alinhados pela mesma Lã residency, curated by Vasco Águas and with technical support from Paula Neves, promoted by Loulé Criativo.
Worship the Mystery
2025, January
Wet felting and needle felting in merino wool, spinning, embroidery, crochet and fabric burning
73 x 197 x 18 cm
Worship the Mystery explores venerating mystery as an intuitive understanding, balancing identity and ancestry. A grandparent’s sheet evokes inherited identity, while felting — shaped by air, water, and time — speaks of impermanence, demanding presence beyond rational control. The sculptural form embodies balance: a dynamic space where chaos is ordered by ether’s mysterious magic. Suspended between matter and the intangible, the piece becomes my fifth element, a reminder that presence arises through breath, cyclical time, and the realization that there is no outside.
The river is a thread
2024, October
Wet felting in merino wool and cotton thread
62,5 x 37,5 cm
This piece was developed during the 5th edition of the OpenStudios Faro.It's concept refers to the ‘Río Abajo Río’', a world between worlds that represents the mystery of creation in the Latin American tradition. Just as the river flows, transforming itself without ever losing its essence, the thread is born from a fragile fiber that, when twisted, becomes strong and gives shape to new paths. This discovery marked humanity and made possible new ways of living and inhabiting. This work celebrates the thread of humanity, a continuous flow that transmutes with each generation, but is always part of the same ball of yarn.
Mountain-river
2024, April
Wet felting in merino wool
37,5 x 37,5 cm
This work represents the artist's encounter with felting and, through it, with a new way of creating. It was in this flow of experimentation that she found lightness and contentment, allowing herself to explore patterns and colors that are now part of her creative identity. The piece reflects the freedom of the abstract gesture, like a silent dance between hands and matter, revealing states of mind that unfold in layers of wool. It is the manifestation of an intimate discovery: an almost performative process that connects body, color and creation.