First impressions of the scale model

detail of scale model

Scale model

Final installation on the site

Final installation on the site

In the company of António Sampaio da Nóvoa, dean of the University of Lisbon and President Vicente Ferreira of the Polythecnic Institute of Lisbon (IPL)

 

Human curiosity is a desire to see or know something unknown, it's a natural ability that is a part of human instinct, as it reflects an exploration of the universe that is intended and an addition to all the information we already possess.
When curiosity and desire to know something exceeds a preset limit for social ethics, as in this case, an area with forbidden access, questions are raised about the space, on its constitution, on its content, in general, the urge to know the unknown, the so called curiosity.

 

Therefore, when there is no spatial information and materials on that space, and being the field of curiosity imperative in question, another element asserted itself: the field of imagination.
Taking the faculty of imagination as a result of the unknown and it's blooming curiosity, the result was a completely new concept of space, where the curiosity of preexisting no longer prevail and fiction took its place.

 

Also it's a privilege for me to say that after the exhibition in which this piece was made for, the academy of fine arts of Lisbon offered me to permanently exhibit this piece on it's own academy, it's an honor for me as a student and as an artist to be acknowledged by it's own academy that never done this before, so i would like to thank all the people that supported me in this, it was not easy to accomplish but it was worth it x100!