Emospheric Landscape

The exhibition of Inês Dantas took part of the Associated  Project  Close Closer  of the Lisbon’s Triennale of Architecture, a program that investigates the ‘broad territory of contemporary architectural practice’.

Inês Dantas, architect and invited artist of this solo show, researches the surface of the city and the incorporation of the natural landscape with the built landscape. In her work she explores the potentiality of the new tridimensional terrestrial scan technology in the landscape composition of real places. These images are much more than a collection, they are a manipulation that raises questions about the nature-culture dialogue present in the city.

“Emospheric Landscapes” is a neologism taken from the show Emotions and Spaces. The architect will bring the visitor to the Parkland Walk, in London, which is an inactive railway line full of mysteriously beautiful trees and bushes. The exhibition works as a generator of landscapes, opening up a dialogue between nature and culture present in the city. Furthermore, Inês Dantas explores the relationship between constructed and natural elements through a new technology to scan tridimensional land. “Emospheric Landscapes”, is a concept used to name the presence of an individual, who emotionally interprets the special spheres he crosses.

The meticulous process of the image composition rebuilds the place through subjectively chosen perspectives, that demonstrate the integration of the “natural” and the “urban”. The architect co-founded with Florian Wurfbaum, the architecture practice WUDA*, in Munich and London and already achieved many international prizes (Tejo and Austrian Pavilion at Expo 2010 in Shanghai). Inês Dantas exhibits for the first time in Portugal.

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