Joana BC

Performance

THE ENTITY OF THE MULTIPLE HANDS AND THE ENTITY OF THE MULTIPLE EYES VISIT THE TEMPLE OF THOSE WHO LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS AND MANY CRIES OF THE WORLD, 2017

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My work

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A Home for Old Stories
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CV
Drawings 2010
Drawings 2011
Just Love Me - Trélex Residency
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Test Bed Collaboration

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about my work

Joana BC: Porto, Portugal; I have no choice! Life keeps placing materials, objects, creatures in front of me so I welcome them into my practice. For a long time I’ve felt that my paintings and drawings, in their two-dimensionality, placed themselves in the domains of dream and thought while my sculptural work was at the level of the real belonging to the dimension of touch and playfulness! I cared about exploring the tensions between these two worlds, therefore I ‘profaned’ the paintings, pierced the canvases, glued objects to them, allowing reality to invade them. That evolved to the drawings I now make with collages. I work with ordinary materials and weird objects that are considered worthless. I manipulate them so they become extraordinary and meaningful. I buy them at flea markets, some are even offered to me… “Wow, Joana might like this…” From time to time I commit an extravagance and buy vulgar materials found in the arts and crafts sections. My work is a personal mythology (a homemade one). The histories and characters come to light and I give them the shape they need to become alive. I want to create realities that are stuck between the visible and the invisible, the mundane and the divine.

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