PLMJ Foundation presents the exhibition "Going Deeper" by Luisa Mota

The PLMJ Foundation is presenting the exhibition "Going Deeper" by Luisa Mota which will begin on 14 October at 6.30 p.m. at the PLMJ Foundation’s gallery in Lisbon.

This exhibition is part of the PLMJ Foundation’s programme “OFF” organised by Miguel Amado, the foundation’s curator. This programme features unpublished projects by Portuguese artists from the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries (CPLP). In "Going Deeper", Luisa Mota tackles the relationship between archetypal images, the myths associated with water and representations of social interaction. The exhibition brings together photography, video, sculpture and drawings. It presents a body of work from 2008 to 2010 and most of the pieces were created especially for this event. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue that includes an essay by the curator and representations of the art on display.

Luisa Mota has an interest in archetypes as a component of the collective unconsciousness, so she explores the symbolic system that defines patterns of common behaviour. In doing this, the representation of the phenomena that link the individual and society forms the source material of the artist’s work. For “Going Deeper” the artist has created photographic and video series in which water, as one of the four elements of nature, plays a fundamental role in a vision of the world with a mythological pattern. These works are joined by others that analyse the intersection between the body and the spiritual dimension in the structuring of daily life – another of the artist’s themes. So this exhibition traces a panorama of the issues that concern Luisa Mota, revealing her unique interpretation of the points of contact that exist between individual psychology and the imaginary cultural universe.