Fernanda Fragateiro – Processo

In her extensive body of work, Fernanda Fragateiro (Montijo, Portugal, 1962) develops an artistic practice strongly grounded in an interest in 20th-century avant-garde artistic and architectural practices. This interest informs her work and often takes shape through subtle alterations of existing landscapes or objects, which naturally reveal stories contained within themselves.
Working with a wide range of materials and references, her work maintains a clearly defined style, resulting from a minimalist aesthetic concerning form, color, and surface texture.

Throughout her career, Fernanda Fragateiro has consistently used sculpture and installation as her primary means of expression, working with space in its various phenomenological manifestations — architectural, sculptural, private, public, temporal, and socially determined — whether through sculptures, installations, or outdoor interventions such as gardens, collaborations on architectural projects, or works based on public participation.

Fernanda Fragateiro has exhibited at Anozero – Coimbra Contemporary Art Biennial (Coimbra, 2017), Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon, 2017), Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (Rome, 2017), Eugénio de Almeida Foundation (Évora, 2017, 2015), Palm Springs Art Museum (2016), Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, 2016, 2012, 2004; Paris, 2013; London, 2013), CaixaForum (Barcelona, 2016, 2004), Orlando Museum of Art (2015), Palais des Beaux-Arts (Paris, 2015), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University (Cambridge, 2015), Krannert Art Museum (Champaign, 2015), CIFO Art Space (Miami, 2014), Bronx Museum (New York, 2014), Mitxelena Kulturunea (San Sebastian, 2014), MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2014), Dublin Contemporary (2011), Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2010), Institut Valencià d’Art Modern (Valencia, 2008); Belém Cultural Center (Lisbon, 2007); Galician Center of Contemporary Art (Santiago de Compostela, 2006), Serralves Foundation (Porto, 2005), and Culturgest (Lisbon, 2003).

Her work is represented in various public and private collections, including: The Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection, Miami; Fundación Neme, Bogotá; Serralves Foundation, Porto; EDP Foundation, Lisbon; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon; António Cachola Collection, Elvas; Berardo Museum Collection, Lisbon; Caixa Geral de Depósitos Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon; Galician Center of Contemporary Art, Santiago de Compostela; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander; La Caixa Foundation, Barcelona; Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres.

Fernanda Fragateiro is represented by Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid; Arratia Beer Gallery, Berlin; Baginski Galeria/Projectos, Lisbon; and Josée Bienvenue Gallery, New York.

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Fernanda Fragateiro’s exhibition, Processo, brings together a set of sculptures produced in recent years, which reconfigure and adapt to the space, along with a group of works conceived specifically for the site.

Through these works, the artist establishes a strong dialogue not only with the architecture of the International Museum of Sculpture but also with the contents of the Archaeology Section of the Abade Pedrosa Museum, adding to its collection debris from the self-built Bairro 6 de Maio in Amadora.

The work for this exhibition develops from various materials, methodologies, and research content, aiming to explore and reveal the importance of its working processes; the plurality of materials and stimuli that converge in the construction of the pieces — drawings, photographs, books, magazine pages, conversations, rumors, material scraps, scale models, color tests — themselves transformed into raw material.

Opening: October 19, 2018, at 7:30 PM