In her first solo presentation at Grey Noise, Lisbon based Portuguese artist Joana Escoval presents a group of sculptures mainly made of precious metals. Usually found in nature, compounded into different bodies, entities and objects, the human body included, these metals, like others, are inextricable from life and share both bio as well as geologically between so-called living and non-living beings. The fact that these components are conductors, electric and otherwise, is intimately related to their processes of creation as objects by Escoval. Whichever form they’re found in (compounded or purified, mixed as alloys or mixed with other materials), these elements are charged with energies that unite beings and objects, the material and the spiritual. The artist blurs the borders between what we are so used to calling “nature” and “culture”, and emphasizes instead how everything is entangled and connected, seeing “nature” and its cycles beyond a western point-of-view. And...most of all, seeing it as something that is not separate from us.
Joana Escoval’s works are passages, open-ended invisible paths. The rhythm and fluidity of the metals she uses in her work are temporarily suspended in time, and will eventually follow their natural transition and transmission into other states of matter, keeping their new-found charges and vibrations from when they were sculptures.
Joana Escoval lives and works in Lisbon. A selection of exhibitions and projects include Fiducia Incorreggibile, Vera Cortes Gallery, Lisbon (2017), Transmissions from the Etherspace, La Casa Encendida, Madrid (2017), Current Detours, HalfHouse, Barcelona (2017), I will go where I don ‘ t belong Volcano Extravaganza, Forucci Art Trust, Stromboli (2016); I forgot to go to school yesterday, Kunsthalle Lissabon and Kunsthalle Tropical, Iceland (2016); Lichens Never Lie, La Criée Center for Contemporary Art, Rennes (2016); Matter Fictions, Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon (2016); The lynx knows no boundaries, Fondation d entreprise Ricard, Paris (2015); Europe, Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (2014). She won the BES Revelation Prize in 2012 (Serralves Museum) and was nominated for the EDP Foundation New Artists Prize in 2015, in Portugal. Escoval has received a fellowship from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and FLAD Foundation in 2013. Among other residencies attention is drawn to Fiorucci Art Trust Residency in Stromboli in 2015, and RU, in New York in 2013/14. She has recently published two flexidiscs with Atlas Projects and Palmário Recordings.
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