Liminal Flesh – Vera Mota

proposes the transfer of generative drawing methods to digital language, informing this process with the physical properties and behaviour of materials. The direct participation of the body is replaced by instructions that operate digital tools; the gesture is coded, transformed and multiplied through generative systems, promoting the continuous modification of a shapeless and rugged mass.

This mutating matter — which simultaneously holds the foundation of gesture and the density of volcanic rock or the viscosity of fresh paint — dialogues with a second entity here: a slender, rigid, metallic form that runs through it like a skeletal structure supporting muscles in disarray.

Through augmented reality, “Liminal Flesh” manifests itself as a suspended presence, inscribing itself in the space of the Jardim de São Lázaro without attaching itself to it. The garden, traditionally associated with contemplation and natural regency, is reprogrammed here as the stage for an unstable apparition, where the senses are called upon to renegotiate their own parameters of perception.