Queer paper gardens, 2013
  Museu da Electricidade Lisbon
  198 Contemporary Arts and Learning London
 

Artistic research into the history of collage culminating
in an artists' book,  an installation made up of a collage salon, two double-screen video-essays and two large-scale charcoal drawings. The work explores travel and collage as interlinked cultural queer and feminist
practices in its relationship to contemporary art.
Focused on collage created across three centuries, ranging from Flora Delanica (1772-1782), Mary Delany's botanical collage work considered a pioneering instance of collage on paper, to the photographic collages of the Victorian era and, finally, to the Modernist collage-novels that constitute the exhibition's fulcrum: Max Ernst's Une Semaine de Bonté (1934), and Valentine Penrose's Dons des Féminines (1951).

paula roush
maria lusitano

Publications:

Queer paper gardens or the Wildlife of symbols,
Lisbon: Fundação EDP

Exhibitions:

Queer Paper Gardens (Estranhos Jardins de Papel)
Museu da Electricidade Lisbon

Dreaming Through –On & Into the Exotic
198 Contemporary Arts and Learning London

Texts:

I. Queer paper gardens or the Wildlife of symbols:Les deux amies / The two girlfriends (Gifts of the Feminine); II. The mise-en-scéne of the unconscious (A Week of Goodness); III. The photoalbum in the drawing room (cardomania), the album of Madame B.; IV.  The paper mosaick (Female cruising in the garden), paula roush + maria lusitano, Queer Paper Gardens: Roman. Lisbon: Fundação EDP, 2013

"Minar o mundo circundante/ To mine the surrounding world", João Pinharanda (Queer Paper Gardens exhibition curator's statement

"Colagem e Colisao" ("Collage and collision: An artistic collaboration around the dances and counterdances of gender retrieves collage as a mode of associating images", Celso Martins Expresso Atual Magazine

"Mulheres fatais e outras que tais" (Fatal women and others as such: A visit to the surrealist museum through collage)", Luisa Soares de Oliveira Ipsilon Publico Magazine"

a journal of one’s own, a text dedicated to mary,margaret,valentine, alice,paula, maria and all the other women" Cristina Duarte reflections on Queer Paper Gardens, Vol. VFundacao EDP 2013

"When writing and visual arts meet, magic can happen", Wayne Burrows, Backlit Gallery meets Nottingham Writers' Studio

Related workshops:

Queer Paper Gardens: exploring the relationship between collage and self-publishing. Workshop for artists and educators. EDP Foundation, Lisbon

Dreaming Through: Self-publishing workshop for artists and educators.  Resulting works showcased alongside the exhibition in street facing displays at 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning Gallery, London

Queer paper gardens: guided visit to the exhibition. 
The Lisbon Consortium. III Lisbon Summer for the Study of Culture Programme

True Tales: Queer artistic strategies. With: Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Patrícia Guerreiro, paula roush, Maria Lusitano, João Manuel de Oliveira and Nuno Crespo. Part of "hetero q.b." program at  The National Museum of Contemporary Chiado,  Lisbon

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