Umbigo

Throughout the project, consideration was given to aspects relating both to the graphic content (text and images) and the material content, exploring the visual and artistic potential of the paper using the samples provided by Umbigo for this purpose.

Through actions such as collecting, analysing, reusing, converting, repairing, reintegrating, enhancing, adding to, rethinking, reproducing and recycling, the students created objects for the body – adornments – from paper and metal. These incorporate pages from the magazine – torn, cut, trimmed, folded, creased, engraved, pierced, crumpled, pressed, twisted, wet, shredded, crushed, glued, sewn, riveted and burnt – as well as a chiselled element in silver and the respective connecting/fitting/clasping mechanisms, in copper and brass.

In their various forms and intentions, these pieces of jewellery embody the idea that, through (re)creation, we are, in some way, regenerating ourselves, regenerating others and the world, and, in that sense, the planet Earth.

<div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="5TQvmaGbm_" data-block-id="5TQvmaGbm_" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="rsjPeSeeoU" data-block-id="rsjPeSeeoU" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="-0_sqKUneZ" data-block-id="-0_sqKUneZ" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="b4j1ypDaAr" data-block-id="b4j1ypDaAr" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="aJsH0QMAL4" data-block-id="aJsH0QMAL4" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">The 11th-grade students on the Artistic Production – Jewellery course at the Escola Artística António Arroio were challenged to create a piece of jewellery by exploring various issues of Umbigo magazine, printed on paper. From this experience emerged the </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Regenera</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true"> project, which took as its starting point the theme of the magazine’s July 2025 issue (Umbigo #93), centred on the idea of </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Regeneration</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></span></div>

Regenera, volta a criar [Regenerate, (re)create]

No decurso do trabalho, foram tidos como referência aspetos relacionados tanto com o conteúdo gráfico (textos e imagens) como com o conteúdo matérico, explorando-se as potencialidades visuais e plásticas do papel, a partir dos exemplares disponibilizados pela Umbigo para este fim.

Na procura de ações como recolher, analisar, reutilizar, converter, reparar, reintegrar, potenciar, acrescentar, repensar, reproduzir e reciclar, foram construídos objetos para o corpo – adornos – em papel e metal. Estes, integram folhas da revista - rasgadas, cortadas, recortadas, dobradas, vincadas, gravadas, furadas, amarrotadas, prensadas, torcidas, molhadas, trituradas, amassadas, coladas, cosidas, rebitadas e queimadas – bem como um elemento cinzelado em Prata e os respetivos mecanismos de ligação/encaixe/fecho, em Cobre e Latão.

Nas suas diferentes dimensões e intenções, estas joias constituem uma manifestação da ideia de que, pela via da (re)criação, estamos, de alguma forma, a regenerar-nos, a regenerar o outro e o mundo e, nesse sentido, o planeta Terra.

<div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="rysgTNMKAf" data-block-id="rysgTNMKAf" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">Os alunos do 11.º ano do Curso de Produção Artística - Ourivesaria, da </span></span></span><a data-slate-node="element" data-slate-inline="true" class="slate-a link-static font-medium text-primary underline decoration-primary underline-offset-4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.antonioarroio.edu.pt/" data-slate-type="a" data-slate-url="https://www.antonioarroio.edu.pt/" data-slate-id="MRlouLsEuZ" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">Escola Artística António Arroio</span></span></span></a><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">, foram desafiados a criar uma joia através da exploração de diferentes exemplares, impressos em papel, da Umbigo, Magazine. Desta experiência nasceu o projeto </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Regenera, volta a criar </span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">que teve como ponto de partida a temática da edição de julho de 2025 da revista (</span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Umbigo #93</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">), centrada na ideia de </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Regeneração</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>

Regenera, volta a criar

Maria Inês Augusto

<div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="qciKgM9NV4" data-block-id="qciKgM9NV4" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Tabique</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">, on display at Salgadeiras Arte Contemporânea, extends throughout the gallery, creating a space for exploring processes. Rita Gaspar Vieira presents us with a system of thought in which matter, gesture, time, and trace coexist in a state of inscription but also, I would say, divination. Between archive and memory, the attempt to name and the awareness that all naming is precarious construct an experimental dimension, distancing the work from any fixed understanding. Revelation emerges here as a process of knowledge, as a method of sensory investigation, a trace of embodied thought.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></div>

Tabique, by Rita Gaspar Vieira

<div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text" data-slate-leaf="true"><div class="slate-editor group/editor relative w-full cursor-text select-text overflow-x-hidden whitespace-pre-wrap break-words rounded-5px ring-offset-background focus-visible:outline-none placeholder:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:top-[auto_!important] [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:text-muted-foreground/80 [&_[data-slate-placeholder]]:!opacity-100 [&_strong]:font-bold" data-slate-editor="true" data-slate-node="value"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" style="position:relative"><div data-slate-node="element" class="slate-p m-0 px-0 py-1" data-slate-type="p" data-slate-id="X_WKqpgpMd" data-block-id="X_WKqpgpMd" style="position:relative"><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">A exposição </span></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class="" data-slate-italic="true"><em data-slate-leaf="true" class="slate-italic" data-slate-italic="true"><span data-slate-string="true">Tabique</span></em></span></span><span data-slate-node="text"><span data-slate-leaf="true" class=""><span data-slate-string="true">, apresentada na Salgadeiras Arte Contemporânea, estende-se pela galeria criando um território de investigação sobre processos. Rita Gaspar Vieira apresenta-nos um sistema de pensamento onde matéria, gesto, tempo e vestígio coexistem numa condição de inscrição, mas, também, diria eu, de adivinhação. Entre arquivo e memória, entre a tentativa de nomear e a consciência de que toda a nomeação é precária, constrói-se uma dimensão experimental que afasta a obra de qualquer entendimento estabilizado. Revelar surge aqui como processo de conhecimento, como método de investigação sensível, vestígio de um pensamento corporalizado.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div></span></div></span></div>