contemporary art gallery
Exhibition Views
Ana Jotta
Next song we will sing...
22 MARCH 24 - 4 MAY 24
I'm using photography as a way to investigate and try to understand these seas. I attempted to make them more artificial and less natural.
Nuno Cera in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Photographic documentation
Among the one-person exhibitions we can single out: “Drawings”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation; “Body Building”, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon; “Rui Sanches, Retrospective”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation and “Museum”, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Some important group-exhibitions were: the 19th São Paulo Bienal; “PASTFUTURETENSE”, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery; “Tríptico”, Europália 91. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent; “From Silence to Light”, Watari-Um, Tóquio; “Abstract/Real”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Viena; “Dentro y Fuera” Cáceres and “Serralves 2009 – The Collection”, Museu de Serralves, Porto. During the 1980’s his work was based on the deconstruction of paintings and genres of painting.
Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she works and lives. After studying at Lisbon´s Fine Arts School and Brussels' École d'Arts Visuels de l'Abbeye de la Cambre, Ana worked as an actress and stage designer (1976-79) with "Produções Teatrais" (University Theatre, Lisbon). From 1980's onwards, she focused her activity on the visual arts and has been a regular presence at major art fairs and biennales (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.).
Ana Jotta has build her work in a sequence of breakthroughs that embody some sort of erasement: of her own previous footsteps; of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies; and of the notion of authorship - either by deconstructing it or rebuilding it, she has attempted to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style.
Through a bare economy of means, her work shows a great sense of intelligence and wit. With Ana Jotta, you can always expect the unexpected.
Ana Jotta has showed her work at the most prestigious foundations and institutions such as Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; Etablissement d'en face, Brussels and at Malmo Konsthall, Malmo.
She also showed her work at Culturgest Porto with the exhibition “CASSANDRA", Culturgest Lisboa with “A Conclusão da Precedente”, Museu de Serralves with "Rua Ana Jotta" and also in Casa de São Roque with the exhibition INVENTÓRIA.
In 2013 she was awarded with the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize and in 2014 with the AICA Award. Later in 2017 Ana Jotta received the Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Artist Bio
Through a bare economy of means, her work shows a great sense of intelligence and wit. With Ana Jotta, you can always expect the unexpected.
Ana Jotta has showed her work at the most prestigious foundations and institutions such as Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; Etablissement d'en face, Brussels and at Malmo Konsthall, Malmo.
She also showed her work at Culturgest Porto with the exhibition “CASSANDRA", Culturgest Lisboa with “A Conclusão da Precedente”, Museu de Serralves with "Rua Ana Jotta" and also in Casa de São Roque with the exhibition INVENTÓRIA.
In 2013 she was awarded with the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize and in 2014 with the AICA Award. Later in 2017 Ana Jotta received the Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she works and lives. After studying at Lisbon´s Fine Arts School and Brussels' École d'Arts Visuels de l'Abbeye de la Cambre, Ana worked as an actress and stage designer (1976-79) with "Produções Teatrais" (University Theatre, Lisbon). From 1980's onwards, she focused her activity on the visual arts and has been a regular presence at major art fairs and biennales (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.).
Ana Jotta has build her work in a sequence of breakthroughs that embody some sort of erasement: of her own previous footsteps; of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies; and of the notion of authorship - either by deconstructing it or rebuilding it, she has attempted to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style.
Artist Bio
Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she works and lives. After studying at Lisbon´s Fine Arts School and Brussels' École d'Arts Visuels de l'Abbeye de la Cambre, Ana worked as an actress and stage designer (1976-79) with "Produções Teatrais" (University Theatre, Lisbon). From 1980's onwards, she focused her activity on the visual arts and has been a regular presence at major art fairs and biennales (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.).
Ana Jotta has build her work in a sequence of breakthroughs that embody some sort of erasement: of her own previous footsteps; of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies; and of the notion of authorship - either by deconstructing it or rebuilding it, she has attempted to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style.
Through a bare economy of means, her work shows a great sense of intelligence and wit. With Ana Jotta, you can always expect the unexpected.
Ana Jotta has showed her work at the most prestigious foundations and institutions such as Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; Etablissement d'en face, Brussels and at Malmo Konsthall, Malmo.
She also showed her work at Culturgest Porto with the exhibition “CASSANDRA", Culturgest Lisboa with “A Conclusão da Precedente”, Museu de Serralves with "Rua Ana Jotta" and also in Casa de São Roque with the exhibition INVENTÓRIA.
In 2013 she was awarded with the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize and in 2014 with the AICA Award. Later in 2017 Ana Jotta received the Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
Artist Bio
"A day without 'pain', a day without pain, is a day without sun."
Ana Jotta in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Artworks
Among the one-person exhibitions we can single out: “Drawings”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation; “Body Building”, Loja da Atalaia, Lisbon; “Rui Sanches, Retrospective”, CAM, Gulbenkian Foundation and “Museum”, Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon. Some important group-exhibitions were: the 19th São Paulo Bienal; “PASTFUTURETENSE”, Winnipeg Art Gallery and Vancouver Art Gallery; “Tríptico”, Europália 91. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent; “From Silence to Light”, Watari-Um, Tóquio; “Abstract/Real”, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Viena; “Dentro y Fuera” Cáceres and “Serralves 2009 – The Collection”, Museu de Serralves, Porto. During the 1980’s his work was based on the deconstruction of paintings and genres of painting.
"The word is my engine. (…) The word comes to me precisely as everything comes. And it always starts with a word, to do whatever it is, if it's with another format, because as you know, I always carry notebooks in my wallet, I've been doing this for years, which are things I see in the street. It could be a transport, (…) names that I like, others that I don't find funny, but I keep coming up with phrases that strike me. That hit me precisely, hit, hit. Hit lightly, lightly, not too much. And that provokes a reaction in me. And this reaction then causes visual things from the other point of view.
But it's not even through reading, in fact I haven't read for a long time, I buy a lot of books, I have stacks of books which is a very comfortable thing, which sometimes I open at random, as if I were opening a playing card, or a tarot card, I'm not much into those things, but I like to open it and see what I'm going to see today. It's the same thing.
And I have an appreciation for books, not because of nostalgia for when I was a little girl or a teenager, or as an adult. It's because there's something there that I think is precious, first, because I went looking for it, I don't know why. And then because I can open it whenever I feel like it and I don't have to read it. On one hand because I'm already seeing badly, but that's not why. In the same way that I stopped listening to music, in the same way that I stopped going to the cinema, and they are not losses, for me they are gains, because I am increasingly isolated, more silent and more focused on something that I don't know what to do with, but which interests me deeply, or not deeply, which interests me a lot and gives me a lot of pleasure. Which is this energy, and the energy for me, enters my vehicle with the word".
Ana Jotta in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
And I have an appreciation for books, not because of nostalgia for when I was a little girl or a teenager, or as an adult. It's because there's something there that I think is precious, first, because I went looking for it, I don't know why. And then because I can open it whenever I feel like it and I don't have to read it. On one hand because I'm already seeing badly, but that's not why. In the same way that I stopped listening to music, in the same way that I stopped going to the cinema, and they are not losses, for me they are gains, because I am increasingly isolated, more silent and more focused on something that I don't know what to do with, but which interests me deeply, or not deeply, which interests me a lot and gives me a lot of pleasure. Which is this energy, and the energy for me, enters my vehicle with the word".
Ana Jotta in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Patrícia Garrido graduated in painting at the Escola Superior de Belas-Artes in Lisbon (ESBAL). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions which include: Mais Tempo, Menos História, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1996); O Império Contra-Ataca, Galeria ZDB, Lisbon (1998); Squatters, Galeria do CRUARB, Porto (2001). Solo exhibitions include: T1, Serralves Foundation, Porto (1998); Móveis ao Cubo, Desenhos ao Acaso, TREM Galeria Municipal de Arte, Faro (2009); Peças Mais ou Menos Recentes, EDP Foundation, Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis and Galeria Fernando Santos, Porto (2013).
"The word is my engine. (…) The word comes to me precisely as everything comes. And it always starts with a word, to do whatever it is, if it's with another format, because as you know, I always carry notebooks in my wallet, I've been doing this for years, which are things I see in the street. It could be a transport, (…) names that I like, others that I don't find funny, but I keep coming up with phrases that strike me. That hit me precisely, hit, hit. Hit lightly, lightly, not too much. And that provokes a reaction in me. And this reaction then causes visual things from the other point of view.
But it's not even through reading, in fact I haven't read for a long time, I buy a lot of books, I have stacks of books which is a very comfortable thing, which sometimes I open at random, as if I were opening a playing card, or a tarot card, I'm not much into those things, but I like to open it and see what I'm going to see today. It's the same thing.
"The word is my engine. (…) The word comes to me precisely as everything comes. And it always starts with a word, to do whatever it is, if it's with another format, because as you know, I always carry notebooks in my wallet, I've been doing this for years, which are things I see in the street. It could be a transport, (…) names that I like, others that I don't find funny, but I keep coming up with phrases that strike me. That hit me precisely, hit, hit. Hit lightly, lightly, not too much. And that provokes a reaction in me. And this reaction then causes visual things from the other point of view.
But it's not even through reading, in fact I haven't read for a long time, I buy a lot of books, I have stacks of books which is a very comfortable thing, which sometimes I open at random, as if I were opening a playing card, or a tarot card, I'm not much into those things, but I like to open it and see what I'm going to see today. It's the same thing.
And I have an appreciation for books, not because of nostalgia for when I was a little girl or a teenager, or as an adult. It's because there's something there that I think is precious, first, because I went looking for it, I don't know why. And then because I can open it whenever I feel like it and I don't have to read it. On one hand because I'm already seeing badly, but that's not why. In the same way that I stopped listening to music, in the same way that I stopped going to the cinema, and they are not losses, for me they are gains, because I am increasingly isolated, more silent and more focused on something that I don't know what to do with, but which interests me deeply, or not deeply, which interests me a lot and gives me a lot of pleasure. Which is this energy, and the energy for me, enters my vehicle with the word".
Ana Jotta in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Exhibition Views
Pedro Cabrita Reis in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
