{"id":4592,"date":"2025-11-27T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T15:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maissilva.com\/?p=4592"},"modified":"2025-12-19T14:48:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T14:48:48","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maissilva.com\/en\/2025\/11\/27\/inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a>Inspiration<\/strong> explora tens\u00f5es e contradi\u00e7\u00f5es: entre artista e musa, fot\u00f3grafo e modelo, o corpo e a sua representa\u00e7\u00e3o, fasc\u00ednio e ambiguidade, observa\u00e7\u00e3o e desejo.

Como ex-modelo, Rasmussen<\/strong> interessa-se profundamente por como o corpo feminino tem sido mercantilizado em representa\u00e7\u00f5es visuais hist\u00f3ricas e contempor\u00e2neas, especialmente com base na sua investiga\u00e7\u00e3o sobre Audrey Munson<\/strong>, uma das primeiras figuras da ind\u00fastria da modelagem. Tanto musa quanto arqu\u00e9tipo tr\u00e1gico, a presen\u00e7a persistente de Munson no trabalho da artista torna-se uma investiga\u00e7\u00e3o subversiva \u2014 onde o corpo, como uma escultura, serve tanto como espa\u00e7o de proje\u00e7\u00e3o como de resist\u00eancia, moldado por expectativas externas, mas afirmando a sua pr\u00f3pria ag\u00eancia e presen\u00e7a.

Tanto fot\u00f3grafa quanto fotografada, artista e modelo, observadora e observada, Rasmussen procura performar perguntas em vez de respond\u00ea-las<\/strong>. \u00c9 poss\u00edvel criticar a ind\u00fastria da beleza e os sistemas de representa\u00e7\u00e3o feminina fotografando-os? Ou ser\u00e1 que o ato de documentar inevitavelmente refor\u00e7a as mesmas estruturas que se procura questionar?

Artista:<\/strong> Matilde S\u00f8es Rasmussen
Conceito e Design do Livro:<\/strong> ilhas studio
Edi\u00e7\u00e3o e Sequ\u00eancia:<\/strong> ilhas studio, Matilde S\u00f8es Rasmussen, Pedro Guimar\u00e3es & Tiago Casanova
Revis\u00e3o de Texto:<\/strong> Mazlum Nergiz
Pr\u00e9-impress\u00e3o:<\/strong> Pedro Guimar\u00e3es
Produ\u00e7\u00e3o:<\/strong> Tiago Casanova
Assistentes de Produ\u00e7\u00e3o:<\/strong> \u00c9milie Tizien, Antonis Pappos & Miranda Verstraete
Ilustra\u00e7\u00e3o da Capa:<\/strong> Anskar Beau
Printing:<\/strong> Gr\u00e1fica Maiadouro

2025
XYZ Books<\/strong>
168 pages
24 x 16,5 cm
Softcover
Primeira edi\u00e7\u00e3o
Edi\u00e7\u00e3o de 500 exemplares
ISBN 978-989-35169-6-6

Este projeto foi desenvolvido e produzido no \u00e2mbito da iniciativa Creative Europe Intergalactica: books for the culture without borders<\/strong>, entre 2024-25.

Inspiration<\/em> explores tensions and contradictions: between artist and muse, photographer and model, the body and her representation, fascination and ambiguity, observation and desire. 

As a former model, Rasmussen is deeply interested in how the female body has been commodified in both historical and contemporary visual representations, especially informed by her research on Audrey Munson, one of the earliest figures in the modeling industry. Both muse and tragic archetype, Munson\u2019s lingering presence in the artist\u2019s work becomes a subversive inquiry\u2014where the body, like a sculpture, serves as both a site of projection and resistance, shaped by external expectations yet asserting its own agency and presence. 

Both photographer and photographed, artist and model, observer and observed, Rasmussen seeks to perform questions rather than answer them. Can one critique the beauty industry and systems of female representation by photographing them? Or does the act of documentation inevitably reinforce the very structures it seeks to question?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artist:<\/strong> Matilde S\u00f8es Rasmussen
Book concept and Design:<\/strong> ilhas studio
Editing & Sequence:<\/strong> ilhas studio, Matilde S\u00f8es Rasmussen, Pedro Guimar\u00e3es & Tiago Casanova
Copy Editor<\/strong>: Mazlum Nergiz
Prepress<\/strong>: Pedro Guimar\u00e3es
Production<\/strong>: Tiago Casanova
Production Assistant<\/strong>: \u00c9milie Tizien, Antonis Pappos & Miranda Verstraete
Cover Illustration<\/strong>: Anskar Beau
Printing<\/strong>: Gr\u00e1fica Maiadouro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2025
XYZ Books
168 pages
24 x 16,5 cm
Softcover
First Edition
Edition of 500 copies
ISBN 978-989-35169-6-6<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project was further developed and produced in the scope of the Creative Europe initiative Intergalactica: books for the culture without borders, between 2024-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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