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Figura Avulsa is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Felicia Atkinson — A PIANO IN THE FOREST — her first in Portugal, combining an installation of paintings, sound, and text. For the opening on Sunday, July 26, at 5:30 PM, the artist has prepared a special reading.

This event is part of a program of guest artists commissioned to record sound pieces specifically created for the Figura Avulsa well, organized in collaboration with Elisa Pône.

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For Felicia Atkinson, human voices inhabit an ecology alongside and within many other things that don’t speak, in the conventional sense: landscapes, images, books, memories, ideas. The French electro-acoustic composer and visual artist makes music that animates these other possible voices in conversation with her own, collaging field recordings, midi instrumentation, and snippets of essayistic language in both french and english. Her drawings and installations are at the frontier of abstraction and figuration, from a singular point of view, maybe animal or vegetal, or the myopic person that she is when she removes her glasses, where objects and creatures, as the Middle Ages poet Sei Shonagon would put it, appear as ”things that are far yet near”. Her visual work is inspired by the drawings of John Cage as well as the works on paper of Helen Frankenthaler, Joan Jonas, Joan Mitchell or Milton Avery: a landscape, or perhaps the blurred dream of it.

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