Manuela
Jardim
was
born
in
Guiné
–
Bissau
in
1949.
She
has
a
degree
in
Sculpture
from
Lisbon´s
“
Escola
Superior
de
Belas
–
Artes”,
completed
in
1975.
In
Portugal,
Manuela
Jardim
attended
courses
of
“Engraving”
and
“Textiles
and
Decoration”
and,
in
Paris,
one
of
Serigraphy.
She
integrated
a
portuguese
coordinating
team
to
the
Jovens
Artistas
dos
Países do Mediterrâneo, Biennial in Greece, 1986 and in Marseille, 1990.
Since
1980,
she
has
been
participating
regularly
in
collective
and
solo
exhibitions
in
Portugal
and
abroad:
Brussels
(1992),
Barcelona
(1995),
South
Africa
(2006),
São
Tomé
e
Principe(2008
Biennial),
Macau
(2012
and
2016),
Paris(2013).
Manuela
Jardim´s
work
is
represented in both public and private collections.
Peculiar
in
the
work
of
Manuela
Jardim
is
her
Project
on
Cape
Verde
and
Guinea
textiles,
developed
from
2002
and
2008
in
the
National
Museum
of
Ethnology,
in
Lisbon.
The
artist
not
only
redeems,
through
the
use
of
recycled
plastic materials, the cultural dimensions of the textiles, but also their aesthetic and contemporary experiences.
Project concept
The
objects
that
we
use
daily
were
created
as
a
response
to
a
necessity
and
therefore
to
be
used
according
to
their
shape,
function
and
to
their
aesthetic,
symbolic
and
cultural
values.
They
can
be
defined
as
a
family
of
identical
objects and they are consumed just as art is consumed by society and individuals.
Textiles,
modules,
constructions,
collages
or
simply
objects
–
that
is
what
defines
the
works
of
Manuela
Jardim.
Her
latest
project
gathers
materials
and
pre
–
existing
functional
objects
which,
out
of
their
context,
are
materialized
into
new
contexts,
privileging
new
messages.
The
object
as
artistic
technique
renews
the
concept
of
art.
Materials
that
weren´t
understood
as
appropriate
for
artistic
expression
are
incorporated
as
valid
and
trustworthy.
Lines,
spots
and
graphics
of
a
plastic
language
complement
the
pictorial
composition,
adding
to
the
iconic
function,
tactile, sensor and affective values.
This
artistic
process,
focused
on
the
object,
unraveled
in
the
works
of
Manuela
Jardim
since
her
research
project
on
the
African
Textiles
in
2003,
taking
her
back
to
her
origins,
broadening
the
expressive
and
aesthetic
horizons
of
communication.
In
the
decoding
of
the
structural,
formal
and
symbolic
language
of
the
African
Textiles,
we
find
the
logic
of
Manuela
Jardim´s
artistically
created
objects:
the
cobweb
of
visual
signs
built
by
lines
that
cross
and
diverge,
the
colours
(sea
blue, earth ochre, black and white) and the organization in bands and modules.
In
her
work,
we
find
the
incorporation
of
mythical
time
in
real
time
by
joining
the
oniric
and
the
exotic,
showing
us
clues to understand behaviors derived from a genetic ascendancy, symbol of profoundly rooted crossbreed.
Manuela
Jardim
was
born
in
Guiné
–
Bissau
in
1949.
She
has
a
degree
in
Sculpture
from
Lisbon´s
“
Escola
Superior
de
Belas
–
Artes”,
completed
in
1975.
In
Portugal,
Manuela
Jardim
attended
courses
of
“Engraving”
and
“Textiles
and
Decoration”
and,
in
Paris,
one
of
Serigraphy.
She
integrated
a
portuguese
coordinating
team
to
the
Jovens
Artistas
dos
Países
do
Mediterrâneo,
Biennial
in
Greece,
1986
and
in
Marseille,
1990.
Since
1980,
she
has
been
participating
regularly
in
collective
and
solo
exhibitions
in
Portugal
and
abroad:
Brussels
(1992),
Barcelona
(1995),
South
Africa
(2006),
São
Tomé
e
Principe
(2008
Biennial),
Macau
(2012
and
2016),
Paris(2013).
Manuela
Jardim´s
work
is
represented
in both public and private collections.
Peculiar
in
the
work
of
Manuela
Jardim
is
her
Project
on
Cape
Verde
and
Guinea
textiles,
developed
from
2002
and
2008
in
the
National
Museum
of
Ethnology,
in
Lisbon.
The
artist
not
only
redeems,
through
the
use
of
recycled
plastic
materials,
the
cultural
dimensions
of
the
textiles,
but also their aesthetic and contemporary experiences.
Project concept
The
objects
that
we
use
daily
were
created
as
a
response
to
a
necessity
and
therefore
to
be
used
according
to
their
shape,
function
and
to
their
aesthetic,
symbolic
and
cultural
values.
They
can
be
defined
as
a
family
of
identical
objects
and
they
are
consumed
just
as
art
is
consumed by society and individuals.
Textiles,
modules,
constructions,
collages
or
simply
objects
–
that
is
what
defines
the
works
of
Manuela
Jardim.
Her
latest
project
gathers
materials
and
pre-
existing
functional
objects
which,
out
of
their
context,
are
materialized
into
new
contexts,
privileging
new
messages.
The
object
as
artistic
technique
renews
the
concept
of
art.
Materials
that
weren´t
understood
as
appropriate
for
artistic
expression
are
incorporated
as
valid
and
trustworthy.
Lines,
spots
and
graphics
of
a
plastic
language
complement
the
pictorial
composition,
adding
to
the iconic function, tactile, sensor and affective values.
This
artistic
process,
focused
on
the
object,
unraveled
in
the
works
of
Manuela
Jardim
since
her
research
project
on
the
African
Textiles
in
2003,
taking
her
back
to
her
origins,
broadening
the
expressive
and
aesthetic
horizons
of communication.
In
the
decoding
of
the
structural,
formal
and
symbolic
language
of
the
African
Textiles,
we
find
the
logic
of
Manuela
Jardim´s
artistically
created
objects:
the
cobweb
of
visual
signs
built
by
lines
that
cross
and
diverge,
the
colours
(sea
blue,
earth
ochre,
black
and
white)
and
the
organization in bands and modules.
In
her
work,
we
find
the
incorporation
of
mythical
time
in
real
time
by
joining
the
oniric
and
the
exotic,
showing
us
clues
to
understand
behaviors
derived
from
a
genetic
ascendancy, symbol of profoundly rooted crossbreed.
