London Printworks Trust

In Double Bodies : Conversations around Portuguese maleness

Corpos Em Dôbro : Conversações ao redor do masculino português

Brazilian / Portuguese artist f.marquespenteado will be working with the London Printworks Trust in a residency between January and March 2004. He proposes to make new work examining current attitudes to male culture in the Portuguese community. His work will take the form of a web-based video diary of his residency and a series of life-size male dolls, which will be exhibited at our gallery in Brixton, opening on Saturday 3 April 2004.

f.marquespenteado will be working in partnership with local Portuguese men aged 16 to 25, and will examine a variety of view points from their community, researching areas of anthropology, culture, religion, ethnography, sociology and politics, class, rural vs urban, immigration, colonization and dislocation looking at Portuguese male icons and stereotypes from explorers, bullfighters and priests to footballers and waiters. f.marquespenteado will also be working collaboratively with visual artist Faisal Abdu'Allah who will be creating work in response to his residency and education programme.

The residency coincides with the Crafts Council's exhibition Boys Who Sew, opening in February 2004, where f.marquespenteado is showing a selection of existing work from the Prison Speech project made at Wandsworth Prison. Boys Who Sew is a collaboration between the Crafts Council, Goldsmiths College and London Printworks Trust, and has been curated by Professor Janis Jefferies.

London Printworks Trust has also collaborated with Joao Ferreira of Artworks Productions and Carla Alves of the Lambeth Crime Prevention Trust in the delivery of the education work, specifically targeted at the young male Portuguese community in Lambeth. We will be working with a group of Portuguese pupils from Lilian Baylis School in Kennington who will be making work based around the notion of Superheros.

Funded by Arts Council England, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Lambeth Arts.

Photomontage

An In Double Bodies DVD of the project is available to order from London Printworks Trust for £5.00

VIDEOS

Click on the thumbnail images to view the latest short films by f.marquespenteado. You will need Quick Time to view these movie clips. if you are using a dial-up modem these clips take approx 5 minutes to download... be patient it's worth it.

Fernando visits Stockwell		Fernando gets to work

Week one (Part 1 - 1.2mb)	Week one (Part 2 - 1.3mb)	Week two (Part 1 - 1.4mb)	Week two (Part 2 - 1.4mb)

A Festa Portuguesa		Love Menu (Cardápio Do Amor)

Week three (Part 1 - 1.4mb)	Week three (Part 2 - 1.6mb)	Week four (Part 1 - 1.6mb)	Week four (Part 2 - 1.6mb)

Beats, rhymes, prints		The Opening

Week five (1.9mb)		(Part 1 - 1.5mb)	(Part 2 - 1.2mb)

Fernando visits Faisal

Week six (1.6mb)	Week six (1.8mb)

Many thanks to:
camera: Alexandre Da Cunha
editing: Tolga Saygin
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