Tempo Sentido

“The cover art by Rita Ravasco, showcasing a seemingly random collection of dysfunctional objects connected by colourful threads, is part of a multimedia art piece with the title Tempo Sentido [Time Sensed] exploring the functioning of memory and nostalgia. The human mind is figuratively represented as a sensory archive through these interconnected objects, representing the way memory and nostalgia can be triggered by sensory experience, creating an endless network of memory, longing and affect across time and space. The digital painting on our cover is interconnected with another digital piece, a video-animation, and a temporary on-site installation at Universidade Católica Portuguesa. Our cover art is in fact a digital sketch and image detail of the installation on site and together with the animation will remain as a digitally archived remnant of the on-site installation. The close communication between the digital and the physical mirror the extension of our very own life and of our memories into digital space. The multilayered piece evokes a myriad of questions connected to the functioning of nostalgia as an affect fusing diverse memories, times and spaces in the human mind as it is triggered by the physical and the digital.” (Miriam Thaler, “Editorial: Nostalgia,” Diffractions 8, 2024: 2-3)

https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/diffractions/issue/view/887

Rita Ravasco’s Tempo Sentido is in exhibition at Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Faculty of Human Sciences, next to CADOS, until July 26, 2024.

The exhibition is sponsored by CECC – The Research Centre for Communication and Culture.