Atelier

IS THE WHOLE OF
LIFE THE PLACE
OF THE ATELIER?
IS AN ENTIRE
ATELIER LARGER
THAN THE WHOLE
OF LIFE? IS AN
ENTIRE PLACE
A WHOLE LIFE?
YES, IT IS!

Lisbon, 01.05.24
Pedro Cabrita Reis

A PLACE OF CONTINUOUS TRANSFORMATION

‘ATELIER’ imposes itself as a “summon to the marvellous chaos of where one works”, evoking both a place of permanent corporeal transformation and the vibration of what is volatile “within the artist”. The process of conception, selection of works and layout design, envisioned exclusively by Pedro Cabrita Reis, also involves an organic system of organisation, as he himself explains: “Things come to me from where they are stored. I know what I want to do, but I still don’t know how I’m going to do it. And I keep on discovering and creating, figuring out how to place them in dialogue with each other as every moment passes. I started working here [at Mitra] on 18 March and, over the course of this month, my team and I have already changed things; and during this process, I have already created, for example, around 20 new pieces, which will also be exhibited. I haven’t worked on a pavilion on its own; in other words, I haven’t finished one thing and moved on to another. I’ve worked everywhere simultaneously, which gives me a fantastic privilege: to have a broad vision and suddenly be able to take two pieces from Pavilion 3 and move them to Pavilion 5, because I’ve found a new place for them.”