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Madalena Dimas

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until 29 of november at No Limits! Art Castle

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Photo documentation of "Sacred Dreaming" installation at the @wdka Grad Show july 2026 at C3studios !

In order to honour sleep, I fantasize and build a personal environment for prayer. A bed becomes an altar, pyjamas become sacred vestments, and an oratory is filled with dream imagery. Through textiles, ceramics, printmaking, found objects and installation, I transform everyday materials into devotional objects that celebrate dreaming as an artistic practice. By crafting rituals and materialising dreams, I explore imagination, memory and spirituality as forces that can inhabit ordinary life. My work invites the viewer to experience dreaming not only as a nocturnal event, but as a spiritual and creative practice. by @l.mada.l

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Madalena Dimas @l.mada.l talks about her works Holy Cards, Flower Dream Tea Bag painting & Amulets

The intention of these works is to create a personal mythology through memory, craft, and rituals around dreaming, while exploring the relationship between the sacred and the undervalued. The relics are inspired by Catholic devotional practices, where imagery, handmade objects, and personal items of prayer are gathered together in domestic altars and oratories.

Plucking the Broom (4 September - 29 November)
Opening hours: 12:00 - 19:00 (Wed - Sun)
@nolimitsartcastle
Check the link in bio for upcoming workshops and events~ taken in No Limits Art Castle by @l.mada.l

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Details from Plucking the Broom🐞🐞🐞 by @l.mada.l

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Plucking the Broom documentation !
"The intention of this work is to create a personal mythology through memory, craft, and rituals around dreaming, while exploring the relationship between the sacred and the undervalued. The relics are inspired by Catholic devotional practices, where imagery, handmade objects, and personal items of prayer are gathered together in domestic altars and oratories. "
In exhibition until 29 of November 🪷
photos by @djangovanardenne
Flyer by @marieke.jpg by @l.mada.l

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16 days ago

Little bird told me theres some really beautiful amulets hanging in @nolimitsartcastle
Swipe for summer pics 🌞🗣️ by @l.mada.l

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a month ago

Madalena Dimas - @l.mada.l
Sacred dreaming
In order to honour sleep, I fantasize and build a personal environment for prayer. A bed becomes an altar, pyjamas become sacred vestments, and an oratory is filled with dream imagery. Through textiles, ceramics, printmaking, found objects and installation, I transform everyday materials into devotional objects that celebrate dreaming as an artistic practice. By crafting rituals and materialising dreams, I explore imagination, memory and spirituality as forces that can inhabit ordinary life. My work invites the viewer to experience dreaming not only as a nocturnal event, but as a spiritual and creative practice. by @l.mada.l

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2 months ago

Details from the grad show 🌙 by @l.mada.l

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3 months ago

Details from the grad show !
Sleeping with sacred pijamas, luminescent inscriptions glow in the dark by @l.mada.l

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3 months ago

Its been a long journey 🕊️
4years feel like 2 months and 10 decades at the same time
come check it out my grad project this Wednesday at c3 studios 💚
From 12h to 21h there will be performances and drinks, friends family and hugs ! by @l.mada.l

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3 months ago

Meet the graduate: Mada

See their work exhibited among other (de)Fine Art and Photography's at @c3.rotterdam
Huismanstraat 30, 3082HK Rotterdam

8th-11th July 2026. by @l.mada.l

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4 months ago

We’re beginning to wake up to bright spring days, so how do we hold on to our dreams of the night?

Come join us on Sunday, 26th of April, and make your own dream journal🌙🌙🌙✍️✍️✍️✍️ @l.mada.l will teach you how to stitch it together, and we’ll also also chat about all the different to express your dreams in the journal - from scribbles to mandalas to drawings🌀

☁️Madalena Dimas is a young Portuguese artist in love with the art of dreaming. Her artistic research involves crafting new understandings of the world during sleep and wakefulness. She blends drawings and textiles with neuroscientific, psychologic and spiritual insights.

We will provide materials, but we invite you to bring any extra stuff you may have at home - paper, fabrics, glue, old notebooks you want to repurpose, etc!

Entry is free with donations welcome❤️ Seating + materials limited, RSVP via DM to reserve a spot!

NOTE: At capacity, DM us to join the waitlist!

Sunday, April 26 | 14:00-16:00
Post-Office, Hoofdweg 403, Amsterdam by @l.mada.l

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6 months ago

Last week I exibited my sacred pijamas at foundation b.a.d, beautifull oportunity to share the recent steps of my dream practice :)
“ They have relentlessly spoken about the idea of seeing and crafting the world we want to see. This part of our rest pilgrimage calls for invention and practical action.” (Hersey, 160)
“sleep enriches a diversity of functions, including our ability to learn, memorize and make logical decisions and choices … sleep recalibrates our emotional brain circuits…”(walker,7) by @l.mada.l

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