Signature Room by Serra
Contágio Inconsciente
With the aim of promoting local art and offering our guests a unique experience, we have invited several artists from the Leiria region to decorate ten of our 27 rooms. This collaboration aims not only to give the Leiriartem Hotel a more distinctive and creative atmosphere, but also to celebrate and showcase the talent of Leiria’s artists, transforming the rooms into veritable contemporary art galleries, where every detail reflects the creativity and cultural identity of the artists and the region. Discover the Signature by Serra room, entitled ‘Contágio Inconsciente’.
Concept
The concept behind the exhibition, entitled ‘Contágio Inconsciente’, consists of a collection of several independent works. The works on display here – the sculpture by A. Cova, the painting by L. Rito and the prints by L. Teles – bring into this space the aura of this contagion which they absorb from the collective and are, so to speak, a representation of the aesthetic appreciated by the group.
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About the artists
Serra Collective
Serra is a space for multidisciplinary artistic creation which aims to enrich artistic vision and content through in Reixida, Leiria It is also a non-profit cultural association, dedicated to managing a space for artistic creation, based in the former Movicortes warehouses. It is made up of a collective of creative individuals who explore fields as diverse as the audiovisual arts, ceramics, music, writing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and theatre, and whose mission is to provide the necessary conditions for the development of its members’ projects within permanent creative spaces, and to promote temporary artist residencies, offering workspaces and a collaborative ecosystem to external visitors.
The three artists featured here are António Cova, a self-styled ‘elastic artist’ who works in theatre, film, sculpture, painting and music; Leonardo Rito, who paints, draws and writes about death; and Lisa Teles, who works in fields such as communication and design, film, music, printmaking and painting. Although each artist works independently within the Serra collective, their overlapping routines and the exchange of ideas mean that much of their work is the result of an unconscious influence.
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