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Projects A sua casa , was a project developed during an Artistic Residency in FelipaManuela, Madrid in 2012. The project was integrated in the event 3 en el 3º curated by Andrea Pacheco and Susana Bañuelos, in the context of Jugada a 3 Bandas , Madrid. My project was related to the memory of the place, Felipa Manuela's house. Based on images from photo albums and objects that have remained the same since the death of the owner of the house, a set of pieces were created and installed on the furniture in the living room and bedroom of the house. Bedroom A sua casa , 2012 Mirror, half coat, half wooden hanger, 2 mirrors, black ink drawing, bone comb, brown thread, bobine and shadow Site-specific installation of variable dimensions Living room The memory machine, 2012 Singer sewing machine, wooden chair, mirror with black ink design, wooden bobbins with artificial silk thread, mirror, photography, two thimbles, two needles and shadow Site-specific installation of variable dimensions Living room Map, 2012 Ribbons of various colours and materials, wooden bobine and photography Variable Dimensions Sculpture . Drawings, 2012 A sua casa, 2012 A sua casa, 2012 1/9 The memory machine, 2012 The memory machine, 2012 1/6 Map, 2012 Map, 2012 1/5 Untitled, 2012 Red pencil drawing and collage on paper 210x29,7cm Untitled, 2012 Black pen and pencil drawing on paper 21,14,8cm Untitled, 2012 Red pencil drawing and collage on paper 210x29,7cm 1/6

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

A pentagon, a circle, eight books Text of the exhibition with the same name held at the São Lázaro Library in Lisbon Inês Correia We are a family owned and operated business. We are a family owned and operated business. A pentagon, a circle, eight books is the title, which provides us with the coordinates for an unusual bibliographic access. It is the formulation of a trail suggested with generosity. The generosity of those who seek, with the creation of new books and, above all, new readings, expand the experience of the Library and its universal testimony. Carla Rebelo, continuing her method of interpreting space, which she proposes to inhabit as a visual artist, assigned to the Reading Room of the São Lázaro Library, a set of Artist Books, inscribed in the category of 'single copy'. The designation conveys, in the context of a public library, a strong identity, representative and symbolic value. On the one hand, it aligns the pieces on the established axis of similarity, on the other, it traces the deviation that justifies the relentless search for knowledge. With polygonal morphology and with the shelving integrated in the proportionality of the architecture of the neoclassical building, the Reading Room of the São Lázaro Library is a space that reduces the distance from the past. By preserving the original concept and materials, it describes a place of remembrance and maintenance of knowledge, which is important to transmit over time. From some books, others were derived. To these, there were so many more, occupying and advancing on the shelf as an insatiable vine. And so, to the approximately 20,000 titles available in the current library, it is now added, this temporary entropy The intention of belonging to space, based on the visual experience of the object that is a book, reveals the dichotomy between a contemplative practice, which the reading room favored and the discursive practice, which the object book has been making possible in the artist's creative journey. Somewhere, between one and the other, Carla Rebelo creates bridges of connection, allowing the reader who accesses the library and the living room, to examine the immateriality of the Book and Reading. At these points - meeting points - four pairs of Books are strictly arranged: in the geometry of the room, in proportion to the floors, in the gravitational point of the circular table, the bookcase, the shelf. They are grouped and allocated in order of letters - if the library were not an ancestral way of ordering the chaotic flow of the world, of fighting against dispersion, of distinguishing what must be remembered. A first pair, identified by the letters A and M, alludes to the spectrum that is born in the intimacy of the mirror and whose perception will always be proper to the eyes of those who contemplate its pages. Another pair, associated with Blind Books, both designated by the letter C, referring to the idea of absence for the purpose of memory. Words and images are collected from several books taken from the bookcase for having been read. Among the blind volumes, the phrases or illustrations follow and intertwine to tell new stories, in an unpredictable deconstruction of the limits of the books to which they once belonged. A third pair uses the letter S and both books have a factual pattern. Cash books are receptacles for the perception of the gesture. The gesture that makes reading an unavoidable haptic experience. There, assuming the parity between the left and right hand, we can foresee the effect of touch and the reciprocity of the transformative impact felt by the skin that flips and the paper that is fluted. Two hands, return the idea of complete surrender. Finally, the fourth pair, uses the letters T and G to welcome the idea of mapping. In the experience of the Library, there is an inevitable entrance to the labyrinth, to the infinite and to chaos. Book T and Book G are material records of that trip. A trip that is made in search of a safe anchorage, but that is justified by the restlessness and unrest. Books T and G record and cross the limits of the library, bringing us closer to what is distant and improbable. This set of eight books and their arrangement between the safe place of the circular table and the ordered shelves of the mezzanine offer a complement to the (meta) physical experience, possible inside the reading room. The relationship between the books on the table and their peers on the upper floor suggests the use of hypertext in an initiatory scenario. The access to the mezzanine is made by spiral stairs, forcing the helical movement towards the light of knowledge to which one aspires. From the same movement, we can foresee the inherent transformation of the subject. This exhibition is, in the context of LivrObjecto - Anatomy and Architecture, a unique opportunity to observe the BOOK as an object without limits and in which its full value is amplified through the relationship, which it establishes when crossing with others ... Lisbon, November 26, 2017 Inês Correia

An almost imperceptible movement that has to do with flight We are a family owned and operated business. Carla Rebelo An almost imperceptible movement that has to do with the flight is Carla Rebelo's first solo exhibition of Sculpture and Installation works in Lisbon and also this artist's first collaboration with Galeria Monumental. The artist exhibits a set of unpublished works, some of which were purposely built for the Gallery's space, and also a piece from 2010 and two from 2013. Travel is the unifying concept of this exhibition. Understood as an effective journey with everything that is discovered and found there, but also as an inner journey in territories of memory and imagination. Inserted in the project started in 2010 and called “Journey into the cities lived in”, in which the journey is the starting point to work on the memory based on the experience lived on site, a piece related to the city of Berlin and a video / sculpture and an installation connected to the city of Kronstadt in Saint Petersburg, Russia. These works follow research periods in these cities, the last of which was carried out in the context of an artistic residency through the National Center for Contemporary Art in St. Petersburg. In addition to these pieces, the aforementioned concept appears associated with two characters that by themselves condense the idea of travel in the two directions worked on in the exhibition: Penélope and Ulisses from Homer's Odyssey. Two pieces associated by formal, material and spatial positioning in the Gallery refer to these two opposing and complementary forces. Ulysses personifies the traveling warrior, the one who discovers, who opens the way, travels in space and time, changes the places he goes through, makes history, makes memory. Penelope is the opposite force. It is the character who stays and imagines, who travels in his inner world, weaves to feed his desire and does it simultaneously with a creative and destructive force, by day he weaves and at night he cuts. Its journey is interior and its territory is what builds and deconstructs it. Carla Rebelo September 2014 We are a family owned and operated business.

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.

Installation and Scenography Scenography consisting of 3 wood screens and hand-painted elastic threads Variable dimensions "Sónia Delaunay's trip" , 2015 Dramaturgy and staging: Vera Alvelos Interpretation: Tânia Cardoso Scenography: Carla Rebelo Sound design: Madalena Palmerim Photography: Pedro Duarte Gonçalves Play presented in the Modern Art Center of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in the context of the exhibition "O Circulo Delaunay", 2015/16 "Sónia Delaunay's trip", 2015 "Sónia Delaunay's trip", 2015 1/14

Installation Archeology of the present time , 2021 5 wooden displays with 19 pieces made with natural and artificial materials variable dimensions Installation Archeology of the present time is an installation made with artefacts that confuse those who try to decipher them. The installation devices are reminiscent of the 19th century Natural History Museums, but the pieces that are part of them reveal a strange nature. The materials they're made of seem to be from natural origin, but are they? And what nature is that? In the near future what will natural mean? And what species will exist as a reflection of this same nature? An installation that works as a Cabinet of curiosities with an expanded body that evokes a past time, presents a possible present and anticipates a vision of the future that reflects the changes of life on Earth. An Archeology of the Present Time, 2021 An Archeology of the Present Time, 2021 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. Kronstadt, St. Petersburg, Russia In the context of this project, I made an artist residency in Kronstadt on the island of Kotlin (2013). One of my research focuses was an abandoned Fort from the 19th century. Based on research made on site I made a video about the history of this Fort and a series of installations and drawings. The Fort´s Dream - Video Stills The Fort´s Dream - Video Stills 1/5 Text - video The Fort's Dream - (Fragment) , 2013 Video 13'00" Color/Sound Anatomy of Protection II , 2018 Wood, cotton thread and 3 drawings in white pen on brown cardboard variable dimensions Installation Anatomy of Protection I , 2015 Wood, cotton threads variable dimensions Installation Anatomy of Protection , 2015 6 drawings in white pen on brown cardboard 50x70 cm Drawing Russian Cabinet of Curiosites , 2014 Two graphite drawings on paper, a set of glass sculptures, elastic and artificial silk on felt and a wooden object found and manipulated variable dimensions Installation Anatomy of Protection II, 2018 _1740063_DxO_72dpi _1740055_DxO_72dpi Anatomy of Protection II, 2018 1/4 Anatomy of Protection I, 2015 Anatomy of Protection I, 2015 1/5 Anatomy of Protection, 2015 Detalhe Anatomy of Protection, 2015 1/8 Russian Cabinet of Curiosites, 2014 Russian Cabinet of Curiosites, 2014 1/4

The arrow of time About the exhibition A moment that is repeated over and over Águas Águas Gallery, 8 in Lisbon Manuel Valente Alves Time is not seen or heard. It is situated in a mysterious way below and beyond perceptions and sensations. It has no smell or taste, does not touch, is neither hot nor cold, neither dry nor humid. However, his passage almost always leaves marks on things and beings, in the tangible reality of the world. And there are signs of time that are constructed by the human being, such as artistic and technoscientific artefacts, architecture, streets and city squares, which evoke historical times. Also the days and nights and the seasons, natural phenomena that are repeated in an infinite circularity, are the origin of many of our ideas about time. The inner time, impossible to measure, reflects aspects of human subjectivity, such as thought, love, passion, hatred ... But time itself is also an object of thought. As in this exhibition by Carla Rebelo, “A moment that is repeated continuously”, a pause in time, a kind of still that is repeated endlessly. A stop of time to reflect on it, looking at the infinite that is before and ahead of us. During this interminable pause, time becomes an object, a body that Carla Rebelo gradually dissects. Reversibility and irreversibility, finitude and restlessness, sky and earth, water and fire seem to converge in the discovery of the anatomy and physiology of time, a universe of endless and visual, semantic and other relationships and webs. In spite of the passing time, the ever faster acceleration of all kinds of speeds, this genetic work is both frozen time and time in motion, “a moment that is repeated continuously”, an archeology of knowledge, experiences, experiences and feelings. Carla Rebelo creates a totality from fragments, a time out of time that inhabits the materiality of her sculptures, the beauty of her drawings and books. There are lines that intersect and interweave, fabrics, leaves, bark… The moment that Carla Rebelo's art calls for is both an interior time, lived and eternalized, and an exterior time, delimited by history, which looks to the past and protrudes into the future. No discontinuities. As in parallel mirrors in which the self-between-mirrors multiplies into reflected images that dissolve in an endless perspective. Carla Rebelo's art is a science of continuity. Everything connects to everything. It is a slowly woven web, through which we rediscover the infinite complexity of the world, the timelessness of art. Many of the ideas made about time, nature, life are dismantled here. Like the ideas of birth and death. Birth and death do not exist in the natural world. They are pre-concepts designed to make the world intelligible, to adapt the infinite complexity of the world to the limitations of human thought. There is an infinite before us and after us, generations that succeed and connect with each other. Without being able to reveal, even in the confines of time, any cell, molecule or atom that we can designate as matrix. And death, what we call death, will only be a mere transformation of matter, a change of state. In criticisms of the big bang theory, genetic theories are often compared with myths. Which is understandable. Both genetic theories and myths seek to go back, to go back through the flow of time. Some and others try to reach the zero degree of a knowledge process that aims to make the birth of the universe, of life and of the human being intelligible. In the absence of mathematical models, myths feed on intellectual speculation. Classical science, on the other hand, focuses attention on continuous variations. Genetic processes will only begin to be addressed with the birth of embryology. As embryological processes cannot be reduced to continuous variations, given their extreme complexity, science, unable to theorize them, will, for a long time, be confined to its description. Today, genetics and problems of complexity are at the forefront of scientists' concerns, and inspire research that goes very far in the knowledge of phenomena, often linking science to art, the finite to the infinite. Life is metamorphosis, eternal metamorphosis. Between mirrors, projections of space, leaves that slowly change in texture and shape, books and sculptures, Carla Rebelo's work evokes a subjective time that projects beyond the limits of the ruler and the compass, nature and the senses, and proposes a reflection on temporality. Yours, ours, the world. An arrow of time that flies both ways, without zigzagging. We are a family owned and operated business. Manuel Valente Alves

Silent books , 2012 Set of 2 books with wooden covers and pages made of an ancient handwritten book Wood and paper Variable dimensions Installation Piece created for the collective exhibition I would prefer not to, from Herman Melville's tale Bartleby, the Scrivener. A Story of Wall Street. Plataforma Revolver Gallery , 2012 Silent books, 2012 Silent books, 2012 1/7 Video of the piece - installation on the Revolver Platform

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