Diana Policarpo. Ciguatera
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Date
- Sat,
- Closed on Tuesday
Location
Project SpaceCentro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian
Diana Policarpo (b. Lisbon, 1986) is a visual artist and composer who explores themes such as gender politics, economic structures, health and interspecies relations through interdisciplinary research.
‘Ciguatera’ is a large-scale installation based on a research trip to the Savage Islands. The huge rock-shaped sculptures fill the gallery with voices of the islands and their inhabitants, evoking each person’s place in the stories and mythologies of the archipelago.
The title refers to the poisoning that occurs after eating fish contaminated with ciguatoxins. In this project, the artist draws inspiration from both science and science fiction to create narratives that are both factual and fictional, creating an immersive visual and sound environment.
‘Ciguatera’ is a co-production between TBA21-Academy, Venice, and CAM, in collaboration with the former Gulbenkian Institute of Science.
Biographies
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Diana Policarpo
Diana Policarpo is a visual artist and composer working in visual and musical media including drawing, video, sculpture, text, performance, and multi-channel sound installation. Policarpo investigates gender politics, economic structures, health, and interspecies relations through speculative transdisciplinary research. She creates installations to examine experiences of vulnerability and empowerment associated with acts of exposing oneself to the capitalist world.
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Chus Martínez
Chus Martínez is a Spanish curator, art historian, and writer. She is currently the director of the Art Institute at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel, Switzerland, where she also runs the Institute’s exhibition space Der Tank. Additionally, in 2021 and 2022, Martínez is the Curator of Ocean Space in Venice. She sits on the advisory boards of numerous international art institutions, including Castello di Rivoli, Turin; De Appel, Amsterdam; Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin; and Museum der Moderne, Salzburg.
Credits
Curatorship
Chus Martínez
Programming
Ana Botella
Main image
Exhibition view 'The Soul Expanding Ocean #4: Diana Policarpo. Ciguatera'. Photo: Matteo De Fina
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