A The exhibition – which will close on April 8th and on April 6th will feature a special program of visits, conversations with the artist, dance performances and yoga and meditation sessions for the public – is spread across the MAAT Central and MAAT Gallery spaces.
A 13-meter-high tree-shaped structure was placed at MAAT Central, representing the emotions experienced during the 2020 pandemic, initially designed for Villa Borghese, in Rome, which did not come to fruition due to confinement.
The work, full of hundreds of embroidered leaves, was designed for the Cross Season between Portugal and France, first presented in a chapel on the outskirts of Paris and premiered in Portugal at MAAT.
“Plug-in” extends to the MAAT Gallery space, where there are seven works in total: “Drag Race” (2023), which establishes a dialogue with “War Games” (2011), two conventional vehicles transformed into works of art, the first decorated with gilded carvings and feathers, and the second covered with toy rifles and stuffed dolls.
The gigantic tentacular textile sculpture “Valkyrie Octopus”, created in 2015 for MGM Macau, was installed in the oval gallery of the new building.
Two pieces that were exhibited at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, are also on display for the first time in Lisbon: the mirror mask with the title “I’ll Be Your Mirror” (2019) and the gigantic “Solitary” ring (2018 ), both placed outside MAAT.
Joana Vasconcelos, the first artist to win the Fundação EDP New Artists Prize, in 2000, was born in Paris, in 1971, to Portuguese parents, and was the first woman artist to be invited to create an exhibition for the Palace of Versailles, in 2012. .
He began holding exhibitions in the 1990s, and his work was projected internationally in 2005, when he participated in the Venice Biennale with the piece “The Bride”, a monumental chandelier made up of female intimate hygiene tampons.
In 2010, he presented the anthological exhibition “Sem Rede” at the Centro Cultural de Belém, in Lisbon, and his work has been presented in museums all over the world.
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