machines to end the real | Loop Log | Margarida Sardinha

The Loop-Log exhibition is based on the self-referential duality of Hyperbolic Polyhedra documentation – four large-scale double sculptures that reveal the primary geometric progression from the Triangle to the Hexagon passing through the Square and the Pentagon, which respectively give rise to the Tetrahedron, Cube, Dodecahedron and Truncated Tetrahedron in three dimensions. Thus, the show is defined as a Log, or digital meta-documentation, describing a Loop cycle of the four sculptures from their constituent polyhedra’s plan to various static and animated sequences of multiple angles of these double sculptures.  

machines to end the real

electronic and digital arts exhibition cycle

Loop Log > Margarida Sardinha

This automated looped meta-documentation is due to both sides of each documented work transmitting a concave and convex duality as being two internally consistent worlds that when juxtaposed produce a completely inconsistent or paradoxical composite world. Loop Log consists of Loop Hyperbolic Polyhedra - four looping GIFs from the sculptures’ photographic documentation, Log Hyperbolic Polyhedra - four small light boxes with a still photographic sequence from the GIFs and Proto Hyperbolic Polyhedra - four black and white printed images that are sculptures for they each refer to the polyhedron’s plan comprised in each sculpture that eventually can be cut out and assembled producing a large polyhedron, i.e. a new sculpture. At the request of Margarida Sardinha, the Hyperbolic Polyhedra sculptures, were documented by the photographer Ivo Cordeiro and therefore the photographs used in Loop Log are of his authorship, these were later applied by the artist in her work for this exhibition.Concave-Convex Loop - workshop in which the artist Margarida Sardinha will, with the help of everyone present, cut-out and assemble a large scale polyhedron from a print of Proto Hyperbolic Polyhedra. This procedure will reveal the above mentioned duality between concave and convex and how it is unified in each constructed polyhedron. 

Margarida Sardinha is an independent artist & director born in Lisbon, Portugal - 1978, who studied, lived and worked in London for ten years. She attended Fine Art Combined Media studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Her cross-media practice comprises site-specific installation, experimental film and animation, performance, text, sound, photography and symbolic study drawings, which are by definition geometric-abstract and kinetic works. Its main focus is the production of geometrical optical illusions a propos the spiritual in art, thus, making concept parallels within literature, philosophy, comparative religion, science, film and art. Using these perceptions she searches for spiritual/psychological stages of consciousness and relates them with cycles of individual or universal growth. She has had five major solo shows at the Science University of Lisbon, at the Aga Khan’s Ismaili Centre of Lisbon, at Carousel-London, at Ericeira’s Cultural Centre and at Fernando Pessoa’s Museum in Lisbon. Her experimental films have been selected to over thirty film festivals worldwide and she was Winner of Best Cinematic Vision awarded by the London Film Awards, also won Best Experimental Film at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival, at Great Lakes Film Festival, at Creative Arts Film Festival and at Bridge Fest (Vancouver) and Best Spiritual & Religious Film at the Directors Circle Film Festival; she further won an Honourable Mention at the 23rd New Orleans Film Festival and the Awards of Merit at the Lucerne International Film Festival, The Indie, The Accolade and Rochester International Film Festival. She also won the Young Creators Prize awarded by the Portuguese Cultural Ministry and the Grupo Artes e Ideias in 1999. http://margaridasardinha.com.