Alexandra do Carmo | Catarina Leitão | Conceição Abreu | Cristina Ataíde | Isabel Brison Lourdes Castro | Luís Nobre | Mónica de Miranda | Paulo Lisboa | Susana Gaudêncio Teresa Henriques
Why is drawing an essential part of the construction of artistic production? How it extends to other media? How does that extending happens preserving the autonomy and identity of drawing? How does artists think about drawing issues using other media ? Nas imediações do desenho/ surrounding drawing shows a group of artists who understand drawing as a strategic point to the development of their work . Part of these artists think that exploring other media is a way to perceive and analyze questions about this medium. Others explore other processes to return to the two-dimensional form and, in that case, drawing is shown with another condition. Common to all is the awareness that drawing is everywhere, whether submitted through the paper, image or matter. These artists use other practices to consider this medium as a separate process with its own identity.
