Artist Statement

Over the last two years my work has moved in a more proximity to science as an expression of the technological age. The search for a balance between objectiveness and expressiveness and how to seek a more interactive relationship with the viewer’s territory has been what has constantly engaged me.

I seek for an extension of two dimensional works into three-dimensional space where the physical presence of the work encourages the viewers to interact with them as a body in space, not just a pair of eyes and a mind.

Influenced by artist Donald Judd and his notion of “object” as a new category that was neither painting nor sculpture, which had dominated the modernism until the 1960s, my Experiments in form explore reduced forms from a geometric and/ or systematic basis that invite to an experience in real time and space through the active participation of the viewer.

Marisa Ferreira. August, 2010