PEDRO LOPES
Educational Projects:
2016 ‘Reconstruction Event’
http://www.gasworks.org.uk/participation/primary-school-residency-reconstruction-event-basketball-2016-02-15/
2015 ‘St Stephen’s Art Residency’
http://www.gasworks.org.uk/participation/short-term-residency-project-with-st-stephens-church-of-england-primary-school-2015-10-26/
2014 ‘Find Your Voice’ http://www.gasworks.org.uk/participation/event-find-your-voice/
2009 ‘Touch and Be Touched’ http://touchbetouched.blogspot.co.uk/
Selected Exhbitions
2015 ‘O que se esconde por trás do Pôr do Sol’, Traga Mundos, Vila Real, Portugal
2010 StEtheldreda Exhibition, Norwich, England
Taster Exhibition, Norwich, England
2009 In Transit; Stew Gallery, Norwich, England
Invasion, Occupation, Transformation; Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, England
2008 Esteta Gallery, Lisboa, Portugal
International Biennial of Fine Arts ‘On Europe’, Montijo, Portugal
2007 XIV International Biennial of Art de Vila Nova de Cerveira, VNC, Portugal
V Vila Verde Biennial, VV, Portugal
Theatricality is a word that empowers in itself a range of different meanings within the art world and outside of it.
The reason why I am mentioning this word, which sometimes reveals itself slippery, is the fact that I understand it as a particular set of actions that are present in my work.
Theatricality in my work is related with a live stage that encompasses different layers of understanding related with live art, performance or even theatre.
I see it as a group of materials that are set together with one purpose that is the spectator. This dynamism that is found in a dialogue between the spectator and the work is in some way coordinated by me in order to establish a set of actions that will have as result the engagement with the piece perhaps in a more dramatic way.
Besides existing a constant re-enactment of how each work is perceived and understood by each person, the work invites the spectator to become active in a communal act of shared actions.
As result the artwork is shaped and recreated by each individual.