To love an object by Luna Gil is an ongoing research on object adoration since pre-historical times, focusing on the Middle Ages’s creation of the monstrance. Why do we need to see a material piece of a saint to believe in them? The objects presented here are built from images made for thinking with one another, to generate more images, and not to forget.

To love an object reflects upon the survival of love through objects. This installation brings together material components, images, and symbols switched, found, and produced over the last three years. The objects that have led to the building of this site, interconnected over time, are linked amongst themselves by matters of genetics, identity, and origin.

Through encoding, this installation makes an intentionally oriented process visible. It opens itself to acknowledgment through the implicit choices in installing the objects and the relationships established with the spectator. Thus, this spatial choice will hint at the understanding of the links and their contaminations (between object-image-spectator-space) — thereby showing the experience of producing these elements, which becomes a shared experience.

Luna Gil, luso-argentinian (b. 1999). She works mainly in installations comprised of different mediums. Her installations’ themes vary according to world-as-medium engagement and interference associated with memories and apparitions. This process results in codified configurations of objects and images about a subjective symbology. She also investigates how the mapping of effects between the world and the individual is translated into visual elements and how it might be a field of knowledge production. Holding a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from Escola Superior de Artes e Design das Caldas da Rainha, she is currently a student of the Sculpture Master’s Degree at Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto.