JORGE MOLDER

Jorge Molder’s work is one of those whose mystery enchants us. It consists of series whose subject is often the artist himself, his face, his hands. We could call them self-portraits, but Jorge Molder uses his own image not for introspection but as a medium through which he attempts to capture the intangible: thoughts and imagination. The artist is also influenced by literature and philosophy. He consequently developed a taste for the dark places of the soul, the “disturbing oddness”, the map of our desires and ambiguities. Through his art, he mediates on the notion of time to which are intertwined the conceptions of sleep, dream and double as in its series Pinocchio. Those concepts evolve through Pinocchio’s plaster replicas. He participated in numerous individual exhibitions abroad and collective ones too including the 22th Biennale in Sao Paulo in 1944, the 48the Biennale in Venice and the Portuguese Pavilion both in 1999, the Das Schwarze Quadrat, the Hamburger Kunsthalle (2007); Jan Fabre - Le Temps empreinté, at the Palais des Beaux Arts in Brussels (2008).