Made to accompany the sound of the storm (exhibition view), Bombon Projects, Barcelona, 2019
Made to accompany the sound of the storm (exhibition view), Bombon Projects, Barcelona, 2019
Wind in the tree, 2018 Copper, gold and stainless steel Approx. 48x 49 x 45 cm
Wind in the tree (detail), 2018 Copper, gold and stainless steel Approx. 48x 49 x 45 cm
Their beliefs were passed down orally, and thus they could not direct one to written documentation, 2019 Found volcanic rocks, found metals Approx. 54 x 151 x 65 cm
Their beliefs were passed down orally, and thus they could not direct one to written documentation (detail), 2019 Found volcanic rocks, found metals Approx. 54 x 151 x 65 cm
Using what you have to remember what you saw (detail), 2019 Gold, parakeet feather 60 x 63 x 19 cm
Using what you have to remember what you saw, 2019 Gold, parakeet feather 60 x 63 x 19 cm
Le chaton noir et la Lune (detail), 2019, Silver, cat whiskers Approx. 27 x 52 x 4 cm
Le chaton noir et la Lune, 2019, Silver, cat whiskers Approx. 27 x 52 x 4 cm
Made to accompany the sound of a Storm, 2019 Copper and gold Approx. 170 x 105 x 30 cm
Made to accompany the sound of the storm (exhibition view), Bombon Projects, Barcelona, 2019
I forgot to go to school yesterday, ( exhibition view ) Kunsthalle Lissabon / Kunsthalle Tropical, Iceland, 2018
Outlaws in language and destiny, 2017 117x35x20 cm, Silver,brass sculpture The breeder, Athens
The sun lovers I, 2019 36x19x17 cm, Bronze,and gold sculpture
Their beliefs were passed down orally, and thus they could not direct one to written documentation,2017 Silver Variable dimensions Vera Cortês Gallery
Living Metals featuring The Luminiferous Aether Sound screening by Robin Watkins, La Casa Encendida, Madrid,2017
Clean water provides healthy forests, IV, 2018 Copper, brass, gold 57 x 50 x 23 cm (approx) Grey Noise, Dubai
Joana Escoval
The artistic practice of Joana Escoval has established an extremely idiosyncratic relationship with nature. In her works, everything is about to disappear or transform into something different—a cosmos where energy is in constant flux and natural elements are interconnected in its overwhelming incommensurability. Questions associated with the relationships between substances, the body, and the world are explored through metaphors, dissipating any divisive line between the human and the non-human and charging the relationships of matter with an effective poetic work.
Joana Escoval (born 1982, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. A selection of group exhibitions and solo projects include Mutações. The Last Poet, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal , Dust in the Shadows, Vistamarestudio, Milano, Italy (2019), In a Waiting Room, curated by Milovan Farronato, Fiorucci Art Trust, London (2019), The Sun Lovers, Tenderpixel, London (2019); We do not work alone, Fiorucci Art Trust HQ, London (2018); The word for world, Grey Noise, Dubai AI (2018); Nearly Inaudible Breathing, The Breeder, Athens, GR (2017); I’m the son of that drum, Acappella, Naples, IT (2017); Transmissions from the Etherspace, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, SP (2017); Fiducia Incorreggibile, Galeria Vera Cortês, Lisbon PT (2017); Growing Gills, Mimosa House, London, UK (2017); Si sedes non is, The Breeder, Athens, GR (2017); Canibalia (redux), Hangar, Lisbon, PT (2017); I will go where I don’t belong – Volcano Extravaganza, Fiorucci Art Trust, Stromboli, IT (2016); I forgot to go to school yesterday, Kunsthalle Lissabon and Kunsthalle Tropical, Iceland (2016); Lichens Never Lie, La Criée Centre d’Art Contemporain, Rennes, FR (2016); Matter Fictions, Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, PT (2016); The lynx knows no boundaries, Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris, FR (2015); Europe, Europe, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, NO (2014). She won the Novo Banco Revelação Prize in 2012 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 for a residency in RU, New York (2013-2014). She has recently published two flexi-discs with Atlas Projectos and Palmário Recordings and is currently working in a new vinyl release.