Isa Toledo
Casa Commedia
26 JANUARY 24 - 16 MARCH 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
Isa Toledo (b. 1990, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice encompasses painting, text-based work, video and performance, with an ongoing interest in found language, domestic objects and the textures of everyday life.
Toledo has been represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, since 2021, with whom she participated in ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon. Her solo exhibitions at the gallery include No Words, Casa Commedia and Pick a Card Any Card.
In Portugal, her work has been presented in various institutional and independent contexts. Her solo and commissioned installations include a project at Mupi Gallery, Porto, a window display at Livraria STET, Lisbon, and a solo public art project in downtown Lisbon.
Her work is part of the Portuguese State Collection.
She has participated in group exhibitions at Galeria Quadrum, Kubik Gallery, and Zaratan, Lisbon. She has also presented performance work at Casa do Comum, Lisbon. Internationally, Toledo has exhibited at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, New York; HVW8 Gallery, Berlin; Fotopub, Slovenia; and Maison de la Poésie, Paris. Between 2020 and 2022, she developed a series of short films for the Smuggler agency and in 2023, she presented the performance Autorretrato at Central 1926, São Paulo, directed by Felipe Hirsch.
Toledo has a degree in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art, London, and a master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She co-founded ButchCamp, a visual archive and project that explores camp aesthetics, featured in publications such as Dazed, i-D, Teen Vogue, and New York Magazine.
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.
Isa Toledo (b. 1990, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice encompasses painting, text-based work, video and performance, with an ongoing interest in found language, domestic objects and the textures of everyday life.
Toledo has been represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, since 2021, with whom she participated in ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon. Her solo exhibitions at the gallery include No Words, Casa Commedia and Pick a Card Any Card.
In Portugal, her work has been presented in various institutional and independent contexts. Her solo and commissioned installations include a project at Mupi Gallery, Porto, a window display at Livraria STET, Lisbon, and a solo public art project in downtown Lisbon.
Her work is part of the Portuguese State Collection.
She has participated in group exhibitions at Galeria Quadrum, Kubik Gallery, and Zaratan, Lisbon. She has also presented performance work at Casa do Comum, Lisbon. Internationally, Toledo has exhibited at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, New York; HVW8 Gallery, Berlin; Fotopub, Slovenia; and Maison de la Poésie, Paris. Between 2020 and 2022, she developed a series of short films for the Smuggler agency and in 2023, she presented the performance Autorretrato at Central 1926, São Paulo, directed by Felipe Hirsch.
Toledo has a degree in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art, London, and a master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She co-founded ButchCamp, a visual archive and project that explores camp aesthetics, featured in publications such as Dazed, i-D, Teen Vogue, and New York Magazine.
Artist Bio
She has participated in group exhibitions at Galeria Quadrum, Kubik Gallery, and Zaratan, Lisbon. She has also presented performance work at Casa do Comum, Lisbon. Internationally, Toledo has exhibited at Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery, New York; HVW8 Gallery, Berlin; Fotopub, Slovenia; and Maison de la Poésie, Paris. Between 2020 and 2022, she developed a series of short films for the Smuggler agency and in 2023, she presented the performance Autorretrato at Central 1926, São Paulo, directed by Felipe Hirsch.
Toledo has a degree in Illustration from Camberwell College of Art, London, and a master's degree in Painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. She co-founded ButchCamp, a visual archive and project that explores camp aesthetics, featured in publications such as Dazed, i-D, Teen Vogue, and New York Magazine.
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).
Isa Toledo (b. 1990, São Paulo, Brazil) is a visual artist based in Lisbon. Her practice encompasses painting, text-based work, video and performance, with an ongoing interest in found language, domestic objects and the textures of everyday life.
Toledo has been represented by Galeria Miguel Nabinho, Lisbon, since 2021, with whom she participated in ARCO Madrid and ARCO Lisbon. Her solo exhibitions at the gallery include No Words, Casa Commedia and Pick a Card Any Card.
In Portugal, her work has been presented in various institutional and independent contexts. Her solo and commissioned installations include a project at Mupi Gallery, Porto, a window display at Livraria STET, Lisbon, and a solo public art project in downtown Lisbon.
Her work is part of the Portuguese State Collection.
Artist Bio
Artist Bio
"That is what a joke is after-all, it's a desire to charm. Comedy is very much about that. Then the oral side of it, both with the words that sound alike as with the 'Abba Iban, Uta', there's a kind of very delicious Dadaism there."
Isa Toledo 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.
"I started to think a lot about what was downtown, where I live, which I used a lot to make presents for people, to give gifts. Above all, there were the stamps that are made in Franco, the engraving that is done on any type of metal, the embroidery that I do at home with threads from the haberdashery there. And then, for example, there was Casa da Bandeira, in other words, I wanted to use the crafts that still existed around me in the service of what the exhibition would be about. Then it ended up being a puzzle trying to put together the objects I wanted to make, the phrases that interested me, and the process that existed in the neighbourhood. (...)
When I saw 'What is home without a mother? (about Buster Keaton in the film The Scarecrow) I immediately thought 'Home without another', which gave birth to this whole table. This piece, 'We have to stay here', where the idea was to record, in essence, these Freudian slips, which are words that have the same sound but different meanings. Once in therapy, I was talking about time, and the feeling that there was never enough time. And she said 'There is still time'. And I said, 'Steal time?' Or 'Still time'? And actually, this whole table is 'Steel Time'. "
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
When I saw 'What is home without a mother? (about Buster Keaton in the film The Scarecrow) I immediately thought 'Home without another', which gave birth to this whole table. This piece, 'We have to stay here', where the idea was to record, in essence, these Freudian slips, which are words that have the same sound but different meanings. Once in therapy, I was talking about time, and the feeling that there was never enough time. And she said 'There is still time'. And I said, 'Steal time?' Or 'Still time'? And actually, this whole table is 'Steel Time'. "
Isa Toledo 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).
"I started to think a lot about what was downtown, where I live, which I used a lot to make presents for people, to give gifts. Above all, there were the stamps that are made in Franco, the engraving that is done on any type of metal, the embroidery that I do at home with threads from the haberdashery there. And then, for example, there was Casa da Bandeira, in other words, I wanted to use the crafts that still existed around me in the service of what the exhibition would be about. Then it ended up being a puzzle trying to put together the objects I wanted to make, the phrases that interested me, and the process that existed in the neighbourhood. (...)
"I started to think a lot about what was downtown, where I live, which I used a lot to make presents for people, to give gifts. Above all, there were the stamps that are made in Franco, the engraving that is done on any type of metal, the embroidery that I do at home with threads from the haberdashery there. And then, for example, there was Casa da Bandeira, in other words, I wanted to use the crafts that still existed around me in the service of what the exhibition would be about. Then it ended up being a puzzle trying to put together the objects I wanted to make, the phrases that interested me, and the process that existed in the neighbourhood. (...)
When I saw 'What is home without a mother? (about Buster Keaton in the film The Scarecrow) I immediately thought 'Home without another', which gave birth to this whole table. This piece, 'We have to stay here', where the idea was to record, in essence, these Freudian slips, which are words that have the same sound but different meanings. Once in therapy, I was talking about time, and the feeling that there was never enough time. And she said 'There is still time'. And I said, 'Steal time?' Or 'Still time'? And actually, this whole table is 'Steel Time'. "
Isa Toledo in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
Exhibition Views
Pedro Cabrita Reis in conversation with Miguel Nabinho
