animism / ’anɪmɪz(ə)m /
noun
- the attribution of a living soul to plants, rocks, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
- the belief in a supernatural power that organizes and animates the material universe.
Feel free to choose a fragment, take a photograph of it with your smartphone and upload it to modernanimism.com/go. You can take the fragment home with you.
In the installation of Modern Animism at Santo Antoni`s chapel in Lisbon you can find pieces of marble, turritella agate, silicon, howlite and chrysocolla. Domingues mixes natural and man-made stones, thus breaking down the ever-growing boundaries between what is artificial and natural.
Further on, by contrasting the physical stone and the uploaded copy, Domingues wants us to think about the virtual, intangible world that is consuming an ever-larger part of our lives. She juxtaposes this with animism: the idea that objects have a soul, which you can make contact with through touch.
Credits
Modern Animism, 2019-2021
Patricia Domingues
Installation
In collaboration with V-A Studio
2019-20 Created for Kleureyck – An initiative by the Modern Design Museum of Gent and Lille Tripostal.
2021 - Created for Cold Sweat, curated by Cristina Filipe and João Norton de Matos SJ.