Rubbish Lady (Mulher do Lixo)
"Rubbish Lady" is a one year project of collecting objects from Lisbon's rubbish bins.
After that intense year, I presented all of the found objects in the context of the art installation APQHome by artist Ana Pérez-Quiroga at MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), in Lisbon. Her art installation intended to be a total work of art and required the participant’s immersive intervention in a 48- hour period, which aimed to perform everyday life, in a total fusion experience between art and life.
The art installation APQhome – MAAT was a project encompassing a domestic space – a house and its objects – and a garden, inside exhibition space. The invited artists had the opportunity to spend two nights at the museum.
As an invited artist to take part in this adventure of living inside a museum for 2 days and two nights, I decided to take seventeen boxes full of objects that I found in Lisbon's different rubbish bins and I adapted the objects to specific places in the house.
The majority of the objects were toys, however there were also clothes, shoes, children’s books, etc.
The bicycle you can see in the pictures below was also found in the rubbish and it was my chosen vehicle to travel to APQHome.
During the night, when the museum was closed and I was at my new home, I started creating characters with the things I found in the rubbish bin.
"Rubbish Lady" is a one year project of collecting objects from Lisbon's rubbish bins.
After that intense year, I presented all of the found objects in the context of the art installation APQHome by artist Ana Pérez-Quiroga at MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), in Lisbon. Her art installation intended to be a total work of art and required the participant’s immersive intervention in a 48- hour period, which aimed to perform everyday life, in a total fusion experience between art and life.
The art installation APQhome – MAAT was a project encompassing a domestic space – a house and its objects – and a garden, inside exhibition space. The invited artists had the opportunity to spend two nights at the museum.
As an invited artist to take part in this adventure of living inside a museum for 2 days and two nights, I decided to take seventeen boxes full of objects that I found in Lisbon's different rubbish bins and I adapted the objects to specific places in the house.
The majority of the objects were toys, however there were also clothes, shoes, children’s books, etc.
The bicycle you can see in the pictures below was also found in the rubbish and it was my chosen vehicle to travel to APQHome.
During the night, when the museum was closed and I was at my new home, I started creating characters with the things I found in the rubbish bin.
