With the collaboration of

GIL MONTEVERDE and AMÉLIA MARINHO 

 

The project emerged from a conversation between me and Gil Monteverde. We were talking about using the material Velcro for some future project. I took this idea and started making two jackets with this material.

To produce the jackets I had to work in a manufacture, fortunately my mother has one at home, full of machines that I could work with.

I started visiting my parents’ house more often because my atelier was located there, which created a stronger bond between my mother and I.

It started to be a project between mother and daughter.

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The final work is a video-performance that demonstrates our interaction with the jackets, and a series of coincidences that emerged: the coat my mom was wearing spoiled faster than mine every time we used it.  Whenever we hugged my coat was still intact while hers needed constant repair, I found this coincidence poetic, it became my intention to present a work that shows  the relationship between mother and daughter.