Abstract

Keywords: Projection, Introjection, Light, Shadows, Materiality, Landscape.

This paper is based on my on-going artistic and theoretical research on the concept of projection. This concept has always played a central role in the development of my own artistic work and in this paper I will address the notion of ‘projection’, using its most common definitions and personal interpretations, as it pertains to the psychological, optical and pictorial fields. I will do so by analysing its role as a transference medium for intrinsic motivations that occur through thinking, projecting and drawing pictures. Stemming from these assumptions the paper also provides a framework that considers a return to the materiality of the intangible images.

• Helena Ferreira (Lisbon, 1982) is an artist that develops mixed media installations in the scope of video, sculpture and drawing. She is graduated in Sculpture from Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon University, holds a master degree in Visual Art Teaching and is currently developing her PhD in Art Installation with a FCT Scholarship. Over the past decade Ferreira has shown her artwork in Portugal and abroad, has curated art exhibitions, has been invited to present conferences, seminars and workshops, and has taught Descriptive Geometry. She has co-edited essay books and catalogues, as well as published some findings of her research on screens and projection, public art, art research. Helena was also co-coordinator of the Post-Screen: International Festival of Art, New Media and Cybercultures.
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The author wishes to acknowledge the Portuguese funding institution Science and Technology Foundation (Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia) for supporting this research.