Inês Neto dos Santos

Metade da minha alma é maresia (Half of my soul is sea spray) is a visual. sonic and tactile exploration of how thought and feeling can be projected onto landscape, investigating it as a space that holds emotional value. 

It’s a sensory experience which allows the space for contemplation, stillness and for a meditative look – a connection with nature and its rhythms; and a play on the limit between what we experience consciously (and can explain) and what we experience emotionally (and can’t explain). 

This work is born out of a personal connection to seaside landscapes, deriving from my upbringing by the sea in Portugal. It is presented here as a continuous, wave-like flow of visual, sonic and tactile fragments of experience, memory and emotion in relation to an overwhelming, all-encompassing sea. It has no beginning or ending. Water is proposed as a space for connection and transformation, as a metaphor and visual signifier for the fluidity, subjectivity and uncontainability of feeling. 

Metade da minha alma é maresia sets itself up as an never-ending life work, which grows, transforms and moves, mimicking the continuous to and fro-ing of the sea. For SHOW16, this exhibition space will hold a series of works, events and performances, scheduled across the 22nd June – 3rd July. Each of the exhibited pieces exists as a fragment, a piece within the process of tackling and honouring this emotional and physical landscape.