TERRITORY
Juliana Matsumura is Brazilian and currently lives in Lisbon. He graduated in Design at Escola Ar.Co, and attended the Graduation in Textiles and Fashion at USP. The artist is a member of Risco Coletivo, a collective of contemporary design practices. Drawing is his main means of expression and to carry it out he appropriates various tools such as engraving, photography and painting. The series presented here is part of his work “Memories of Water”, which addresses the closest contact with his Japanese ancestry and his trajectory as a Brazilian immigrant in Lusitanian lands. The unknown quality of foreign territories is exposed through diffuse tones like dark spots. The shapes are reminiscent of blurred memories that merge with the expectations that come with the migration process. Juliana is capable of architecting new territories where the weight of ancestry and the novelty arising from new experiences are simultaneously present.
- Rivers that lead to shared territories while carrying memories of a lost ancestry;
- The flow of water is responsible for altering its surroundings.