Maria Pratas
As a textile artist, Maria Pratas recognised that her degree in visual education, centred on visual content and two-dimensionality, created a need to work in three-dimensional planes.
Biography
Maria Pratas is a Portuguese textile artist whose large-scale sculptural works merge contemporary artistic practice with traditional craftsmanship. Drawing inspiration from travel, material cultures and artisan knowledge, she combines diverse fibres and techniques to create tactile forms that explore memory, narrative and the transformative potential of textiles.
Topographic Archive of
Arabian Desert
A golden desert with moving shapes, the figure of a traveller in the centre of a region that covers the largest continuous stretch of sand on earth, represented here as rugged and unique in its solar shades that contrast with the deep blue of the Surrounding sea.
Warm tones, gentle curves, irregular textures, and this is the topography that is recorded in the memory of a topographical archive.
It’s the Arabian Desert.
Topographic Archive Of Arabian Desert, Fibers And Acacia Wood, 100 X 220 Cm
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