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Growth Maps , 2010 Embroidered design on fabric Linen, red, yellow and black thread and wood Sculpture 165x100x10cm

Projects Watermark was a project created for the Money Museum in 2017 related to the history/memory of the place. Two pieces were created specifically for what was once the Baroque church of São Julião. A piece from 2016 was also presented, related to the project due to its conceptual and historical references. Watermark, 2017 White aluminum, cotton threads, wire and steel cables 4 weaved drawings in cotton yarn 200x230x200cm Installation Watermark, 2017 Watermark, 2017 1/11 Exhibition Text Bones , 2017 Wood and shade Variable dimensions Installation Bones, 2017 Bones, 2017 1/11 The dream of Orpheus , 2016/2017 Wood and mirror with black ink drawing (39 pieces with 30x60cm, 30x70cm and 40x70cm) - v ariable dimensions Installation The Dream of Orfeus, 2016/2017 _1680933_DxO_jpg The Dream of Orfeus, 2016/2017 1/10

Exhibition text - Watermark Money Museum, Lisbon, 2017 The persistence of the place - Leonor Nazaré Paradoxical, almost provocative, the transformation of a space that was a church into a Money Museum challenges our habituation to all desecrations; the world of finance, instead of being expelled, is called to inhabit it. Two hypotheses are posed to each artist who is called to register work in the place: to think the work in the encounter, even if remote, with the project and the concept of the Museum, or to think it crossed by the memory of what the building was in other moments of the past. Carla Rebelo chose this second possibility, which challenged her deeply. The two unpublished works that he thought for the place unearth his memories. The work that occupies the high choir, and which he exhibited in 2016 at the Palácio de Oeiras, redoes the relationship he had with that place; a floor of partially painted mirrors reflects the ceiling, bringing it in an extensive plunge to its surface, crushing, in this spatial illusion, the vertical axis that any architectural space always offers and, most of all, a church. Fragmented, abundant, invaded by “shadows” (painted black spots), the panel comments on the very idea of division and / or multiplication that the mirror contains, suggesting a mobile and “false” space, enhancing the design of the place with its brightness and its grammar; it suggests fluidity of light, liquefaction, easy opening, lying and restless to the appearance of the image. But verticality is called to express its full strength in the work that Carla Rebelo installs in the space that was the altar. It operates in an unusual archaeological way in which the layers (of memories) appear suspended and raised in the air instead of being buried: the artist weaves the design of three walls, reveals two plans of the church, draws later functions of the building, recreates the light. The four layers of information that he proposes to us, returning to the place the reference to the successive human experiences that he housed, recall the church before and after the earthquake, the walls of Cerca Moura, by D. Dinis and Fernandina, the uses as a park of parking and as a safe, already in the 20th century. At the same time, they build a trompe l'oeil, apprehensible from various points of view, paying homage to the intense relationship that the Portuguese church established with the Baroque aesthetic, and the very Baroque principle of staging the infinite folds of space, time, the sacred, human, light, perception, reverie and enigma. The third piece also appears from images of the church, already desecrated and stripped down to the wooden structure. The artist recovers from them the design of Roman arches and warheads to build a door, a portico, a window, an arch, a boat, a whale belly from which / from which the skeleton appears, thus merging architectural substance and organic suggestion, an invitation to crossing and intimidation, welcoming and gathering, collection and gathering, shelter and passage. The collapse of the back wall of the structure opens the entrance, the wall gives way, the bricks spread out and are no longer a compact wall, the outline becomes a shadow and no longer matter, back of the light or consequence of it and therefore dematerialization. The memory of a conceived but not realized relocation led to recreation: it would have been necessary to unravel, undo, displace, redo, but it never happened. The work takes the movement that was within this idea and represents it, makes it present again: with some emotion (movement) and delicacy, but also with strength and determination; making reference to an observed reality but also with the establishment of a fantasy; with the projection of the disorder of the scattered bricks but also with the attention given to the numbers that numbered them, in order to predict an exact reconstruction. The image in time is made by these indications in space, by the materiality of the sculpture turned into a quote, commentary and conceptualization of architecture and history. The temporal regression and the spatial restlessness that the three works propose are made with the lifting of the bones, with the skeleton and the shadow, the specular mistakes and sorcery, the overlaps, the stratigraphy, the forces, the points of view. None of the three pieces can be known without the observer's mobility, his real physical effort, his lost steps. In situ: the works endorse the place, integrate it by integrating it. Poinsot (1) speaks of this when he explains the extent to which the place can be the field and material of the work and that it is a visual and semantic cut of a world or mental space that the observer must reconstruct. Mnesic regression is also a return to the skin that covered these bones (and which the shadow evokes), which involved these structures of things that have disappeared and collapsed by other uses and ambitions; it is a return to the volume contained in these surfaces, in these perimeters that the drawing recovers. The skin also has its layers and, as we read in Paul Valéry, it is really the most profound (2). In the dialogue in which he argues, the character recalls the formation of the human embryo from an ectoderm that closes and gives rise to the entire organism. The brain, the bone marrow, the ability to feel and think derive from and depend on that skin and, however much it is excavated, it is to the skin that man reaches the deepest depths of himself. Many sculptures, and certainly those of Carla Rebelo, have this in common with archeology and architecture: the interest in the skeleton (the interwoven threads, the erected structures, the overlapping designs and layers, the stretched cables) and the imagination of its filling, to the skin - a drawn perimeter, a projected shadow, a mirage or an epiphany on any altar in an old church, an old Lisbon, a new presence that designates memory to transfigure it. From that old Lisbon, it is important to say that the place near this, where the headquarters of Banco de Portugal is located, was an area of strong commercial and financial activity since the 16th century; that the Church of S. Julião joined the Bank's facilities in the 1930s and since then has had different uses, up to recent works, which have transformed it into a Money Museum. The History and vicissitudes of the Church (Patriarchal status, before the earthquake, luxurious reconstruction by the Marquis of Pombal plan, in the 18th century, wildfire, new reconstruction, excavations, incorporation of old materials, discovery of the wall lines) informed and mobilized the work of the artist, who brought to the works the “watermark” (also associated with the printing of money on paper), the indelible identification of each moment. And if the piece placed in the altar space takes on the title, which is also the one of the exhibition, Watermark, it is in the high choir that O Sonho de Orpheus, exhibited in 2016 at the Palace of the Marquis of Pombal in Oeiras, most remits us, for on the one hand, for the overlapping of the medieval Lisbon plan (the black drawing) on the Baixa Pombaline plane (the layout of the mirrored rectangles) and, on the other hand, for that exhibition, held under the sign of water, to which the artist called Becoming Water. It is the city's past that is recovered here, but it is also the proximity of the water and its abundant presence in underground galleries, which is insinuated here - the water we heard, last year, in the sound installation carried out in a corridor in the palace of Oeiras; whose course we imagined in the large wooden dam he exhibited there (wheel and long grooves); the water of the Palace lake over which he wove red cotton threads (3); infinite texture and narrative (Penelope and Ulysses), rescue from the darkness (Orpheus and Euridice) (4). Orpheus' image was that of the Palace ceiling, in one of the rooms, mirrored by the floor piece, which now reflects another architecture; but the name of Pombal (5) is attached to the memory of both places, to the signature of (re) construction and monumentality. The wooden porch and the “bricks” scattered from the third work again absorb the signs of the place: the tallest windows and their shadow projected on a warhead; the idea of construction. Numbered until 1800 for a relocation that did not take place, and once all numbers were erased, in a prolonged restoration operation, the stones are here designated by wooden units that the artist numbers from there. The coincidence of the inauguration date of the neoclassical church, in 1802, is just another mesh in the tight symbolic siege of referencing. The 1816 fire will restart the cycle of destruction and reconstruction. Fire and water challenge the persistence of the place, with its “marks”, its requirement for purification. With them and on them the records of what happened are written, the books (6) of memory are recorded: sculptures, space, numbers, plots, shadows, mirrors, evocation. 1. Jean-Marc Poinsot, “In Situ, lieux et espaces de la sculpture contemporaine”, in Qu'est-ce que la sculpture moderne? Paris: Center Georges Pompidou, 1986, p. 322-329. 2. Paul Valéry, «Idée Fixe ou deux hommes à la mer», in Œuvres, Bibliothèque de la Pléiade, Paris: Gallimard, 1988, Vol.II, pp.215-218. 3. At the Oeiras Palace, in 2016, one of the pieces consisted of a mesh of red threads crossed over the water of the lake. Another piece, Sala de Jogo, also incorporated extended wires, this time between chairs, evoking connections between people and playful strategies. 4. I refer to Maria João Gamito's text, “O Devir da Água”, in the leaflet that accompanied the exhibition, for other shades of this analogy. I also remember the play Penélope, in the same exhibition, which worked on the idea of waiting and inner travel. 5. At the Oeiras Palace, in 2016, one of the pieces was a large cage in which the artist superimposed the evocation of garden birds, an existing loft on the property and the Pombaline technique of building buildings “in cage”. 6. In the installation The Library of Muses held in the Sala do Conhecimento (Palácio de Oeiras, in 2016), brought together the nine Muses, with an artist's book for each one, inspired by the knowledge that each represents. However, a large part of these books were included in the collection of artist books in the Art Library of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation.

Projects Becoming Water was a site-specific project created for the Marquês de Pombal Palace (2016), inspired by the history/memory of this 18th century architecture. 7 pieces were created specifically for the rooms of this Palace and a sound installation for the corridors. Two pieces from 2014 were also presented, with relations to the concepts worked on in this project, one of which was redesigned for the lake in the Palace garden. Exhibition text Marquis' Room Becoming Water , 2016 Wood and silk threads Variable dimensions Installation Becoming Water, 2016 Becoming Water, 2016 1/10 Music Room The Dream of Orpheus , 2016 Black ink wood and mirrors Variable dimensions (39 pieces with 30x60cm, 30x70cm and 40x70cm) Installation The Dream of Orpheus, 2016 The Dream of Orpheus, 2016 1/6 Kings Room Th Library of Muses , 2016 Set of 9 artist books created for the Knowledge Room at the Palácio do Marquês de Pombal Variable dimensions Installation Th Library of Muses, 2016 Th Library of Muses, 2016 1/8 Game room Game Room , 2016 7 wooden chairs and white cotton thread variable dimensions Installation Game room, 2016 Game room, 2016 1/5 Cage , 2016 wood and shade 210x120x120cm Sculpture Cage, 2016 Cage, 2016 1/3 Dining room Penelope , 2014|2016 Wood, cotton threads, wool, linen and silk, lead weights, weaving tool, skein and chair Variable dimensions Installation Penelope, 2014/2016 Penelope, 2014/2016 1/5 Garden Ulysses , 2016 Red threads of different materials, stones and bamboo Variable dimensions Installation Ulysses, 2016 Ulysses, 2016 1/4 Small room Zephyr and Flora , 2016 Wood, mirror with two drawings a black pen on paper Sculpture Variable dimensions Zephyr and Flora , 2016 Zéfiro e flora, 2016 Zephyr and Flora , 2016 1/2 Small room Untitled , 2016 Wood, mirror with two drawings a black pen on paper Sculpture Variable dimensions Untitled, 2016 Untitled, 2016 1/2 Small chinese room Untitled , 2016 Wood and 4 paper images Sculpture Variable dimensions Untitled, 2016 Peça vista de frente - visão lateral direita Untitled, 2016 1/7

Installation Private landscapes , 2013 Installation consisting of a set of 4 mirrors, 4 black pen drawings and its reflection Variable dimensions Private landscapes it was a piece created together with the installation Gone to Earth in 2013 in the context of the Parérgon exhibition. Text Exhibition

Text of the Exhibition Trip to the interior of imagined cities, Octávia Round the Corner, Lisbon, 2009 Curated and written by Ana Pinheiro Torres This exhibition constitutes the second phase of a project that Carla Rebelo has been elaborating from Italo Calvino's book The Invisible Cities, materializing a succession of works, essentially installations. This project started in an exhibition held in March this year, where the artist presented the first three works in this series. Using Endóxia, the carpet city, the artist created Inner city, an installation built from a relationship of memory and physicality with her original city, Lisbon, and which constitutes an emotional map of her personal geography. In the memory of spaces and relationships, Ersilia was the city that was at the origin of the creation of a housing space defined by threads, symbolizing the memory of its experiences and the relationships of the “characters” who lived it. Finally in The Cities and the Sky, the starting point was Tecla, the city that wants to build itself in the image of the drawing of the stars. An installation was created where a starry sky designed from the shape of the constellations, simultaneously defined the paths that evoked the plan of a city. In this exhibition, Journey into the imagined cities, Octavia was chosen, the spider web city as a starting point. In this new work Carla Rebelo takes up the theme of the urban fabric, now as a fabric - the streets and paths constitute a network whose construction seems purposely designed to arrest. There is a rational and logical order that presides over the construction of the spider webs - the points of support and tension are meticulously evaluated, obeying a need for organization. The same order that presides over the construction of cities. Similarly, this piece is built in the exhibition space with carefully chosen support points, using red thread, which again suggests an internal geography, that of the body itself. The observer, prevented from moving freely in space, is simultaneously inside and outside the web. We are a family owned and operated business.

Projects Where do my paths lead me , was a piece created in 2004 in the context of the exhibition Dressing Up Nature, a Site-specific project for the Monteiro Mor Park, Costume Museum in Lisbon. In this project, the aim was to create connections, from a contemporary perspective, between the Textile universe represented by the Museum and the environment of the Park where it is installed. This project was produced by the collective of artists participating in the exhibition from an idea of Carla Rebelo. Where do my paths lead me , 2004 Steel cables, artificial silk and cotton textile cables, red plastic coated copper wire and red aluminum ladder Site-specific installation of variable dimensions Where do my paths lead me Performance held on July 17, 2004 Dressing up Nature Exhibition Carla Rebelo dressed by Marisa Lourenço Where do my paths lead me, 2004 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 1/9 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 Where do my paths lead me, 2004 1/5

Projects Journey to the interior of the lived cities, is the second part of a project related to the book by Italo Calvino, " The Invisible cities". This is an ongoing project that to date has resulted in 3 periods of residence in different cities and a set of pieces about each one of them. In this second phase of the project, I place myself in the position of the character Marco Polo, the one who creates from his travels and everything he records from them. This project has a first part, called Journey to the interior of the imagined cities. Berlin, Germany In the context of this project, in 2011 I carried out an artist residency in Berlin. One of my research focuses was a Cold War architecture/memory, Teufelsberg, an American spy station located in the Grunewald forest. Hering thoughts machine, 2014 Bamboo, paper and sound system Variable dimensions Installation Hering thoughts machine, 2014 View from inside Hering thoughts machine, 2014 1/7

A moment that repeats itself continuously I , 2018 Wood, cotton, linen, metal, and shadow Sculpture 50 cm diameter 1/1

Projects Watermark , 2017 Money Museum, Lisbon Becoming Water , 2016 Marquis of Pombal Palace, Oeiras, Portugal Journey to the interior of the lived cities Ongoing project Kronstadt, Saint Petersburg Berlin Istanbul Drawings in Shadow , 2011 Istanbul Journey to the interior of the imagined cities Ongoing project A sua casa , 2012 FelipaManuela, Madrid Where do my paths lead me, 2004 Monteiro Mor Park Museum of Costume and Fashion, Lisbon