Project 

In the raw: relations as they are 

In the raw: relations as they are is the result of an extensive conversation initiated by the Curatorial Area of FCAYC more than two years ago with the Portuguese artist Fernanda Fragateiro, born in Montijo (Portugal), materialised in a specific project for the space of the exhibition hall of the Cerezales Antonino y Cinia Foundation and a publication.

Materials Lab, The exhibition, a deep and complex archive of work in permanent evolution, developed by Fernanda Fragateiro on the basis of a research residency proposed by the Harvard Art Museum, acts as a trigger for dialogue. The multiplicity of layers of information and the contemporary historical variables that this archive incorporates propose new readings of today through the pillars that make up Fernanda Fragateiro's work as a whole - architecture, urbanism, social movements (race, gender), politics and landscape, among others.

Materials Lab unfolds on this occasion as a resounding statement in accordance with the industriousness and cadence of a place of material production, a shipyard -estaleiro in Portuguese-, irrigating the exhibition space with the images, possibilities and potential relations necessary to call for the collective construction of a renewed present.

Image: Materials Lab (EB22 Raw materials: relations with the environment) © António Jorge Silva