Carine Figueras

Work in Progress

O take my hand, Walt Whitman!
Such gliding wonders! Such sights and sounds!

« It carries with it snippets of atoms, elements of pure energy, bubbles of subterranean gas, and sometimes the intimate warmth of the earth. »
Paul Valéry, ‘Louanges de l'eau’

A 500 years old building in the old ghetto: layers of bricks have witnessed hight tides, submerging Venice and retreating.

Anthropocene time. Imaginary to build our future. Our future.

Natural indigo, stars, moonlight and ghazals.

As a butterfly, she cannot fly anymore.

One day, Zhuangzi fell asleep…

Under the trees it’s always shady How fresh is the breeze at the water’s edge! Shi Tao, Sayings on Painting from Monk Bitter Gourd

Collective exhibition curated by Anubhav Syal :
« After origin is an event that reoccurs each time you reset your perspective after a shock, altered senses, of what is moral, or chance.
Welcome to a place where nature seems like a forgotten memory. »

Female silk worm being bred for more than 4700 years
By human beings
No longer exists in the wild
As a butterfly, she cannot fly anymore

« For it is not through the identity of the things themselves, but through the relationships that are secretly established between these things, that places that have nothing in commun suddenly resonate in an hallucinatory and entirely new logic. »
Nicolas Bouvier

Solo exhibition at Museu da Luz, Portugal. The architectural gem Museu da Luz is an ode to the village memory and a hope for the future to be built.

An immersive and cocoon space, where flying paintings on coton and silk softly touch the skin.

When one leaves home to live abroad, as many people are forced to do so on our planet, acculturation, feelings of non-belonging, precariousness or isolation, a wide range of insecure sensations can occur.

Artist residency and open studio in Arraiolos village, South Portugal. Two sets of paintings made with linen sourced in the village.

Series of paintings on canvas made with natural elements.

Photographies in collaboration with V. Koval.