Talk with Didier Fiúza Faustino, architect of the exhibition “Paula Rego. There and Back Again“ and Adam Budak

Talk with Didier Fiúza Faustino, architect of the exhibition “Paula Rego. There and Back Again“ and Adam Budak

Didier Fiúza Faustino is an architect, based in Paris and Lisbon. His practice is at the crossroad of art and architecture. He is developing a multi-faceted approach, ranging from installation to experimentation, from visual art to the creation of multi-sensorial spaces, mobile architecture and buildings. Didier Fiúza Faustino is currently diploma unit master at the AA School in London. He will have his first large retrospective in October 2022 at the MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology) in Lisbon.

The aim of the exhibition architecture (its scenography) is to emphasize the contemporaneity of Paula Rego’s work as well as to echo the violence of the world she depicts. Walls to hang her paintings have been designed with protruding parts, giving them a grotesque appearance and resembling the grotesque protagonists of the artist's world. Their wrapping with thermo-retractable white film, with its stretched and wrinkled parts, gives a sense of both tension and sensuality.