Plastic and Theater Artist.
A convinced self-taught person, I base my practice on doubt, error and imperfection. I have an obsessive fascination with natural materials, discovering how they work when worked, the nobility with which they age and last. I enjoy practicing ancestral techniques and comparing them with contemporary concepts. Only constant experimentation, time and commitment give us the poetic freedom and manual dexterity capable of generating new techniques and aesthetics. Each piece created, more than perfect, has a unique character.
I pursue metaphor and synthesis, I am inspired by the wabi-sabi philosophy, the idea of theatricality, the concepts of experimentality, identity, understanding the world and the other.
I don't like mechanical repetition, nor decorations and trinkets, nor crowds, nor certainties.
Started his artistic activity at the Coimbra University's Theater of Students in 1987.
Founding member of the ESCOLA DA NOITE (professional group of theater of Coimbra),
where he worked for eighteen years (1992-2010) in the areas of acting, staging, set design, props and training.
In 2011 he created, with Sílvia Brito, the artistic creation,training and programming project RAZÕES POÉTICAS —
ASSOCIAÇÃO INFORMAL DE ARTES,having directed multidisciplinary artistic theatrical and plastic creations.
Since 1997 he develops a systematic work of creating / building masks, sculptures and other unique objects,
in multiple materials.
He has collaborated with several artists and institutions.
He has presented his work in exhibitions-installations in galleries and museums in Portugal, Macau and Turkey.
