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Eneida Tavares: Caruma

Eneida Tavares used colors, textures, artisan techniques and habits of daily life as input to recreate a new landscape through objects that combine local and distant simultaneously.

Designed by Eneida Tavares for her MA project, Caruma is a series of vessels and containers formed by a mixed technique – earthenware and basketry – to demonstrate the possible relationship between two different construction fields, creating a relationship of dependency between them.

Eneida Tavares’ family roots are from Angola and Cape Verde so in her project she used that as a begining for the research. In a way she decided to work about it to learn more about her roots trought material culture.

On the one hand the earthenware with a strong tradition in the specific context in which the project was carried out (Caldas da Rainha, Portugal) and on the other the Angolan basketry – where part of her roots come from – particularly the sewed coiling technique. This two materials create a relationship that is familiar to us; basketry that is lasting to the daily scale, earthenware that is the historical range. It is intended the intercultural dialogue that mixes closeness to what is far away.

These vases are made from glazed earthenware and the basketry part from pine neddles fibers (“caruma”). Tavares always try to do them assimetrical, organical so they can dialogue with the geometric vases otherwise it wouldn’t be so interesting to relate to.