Hair Sculpture
Exhibition Jarra Humana: Obras da Coleção de Arte Contemporânea do Estado
Curated by Francisca Portugal and Sandra Vieira Jürgens
Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas - MACE
Elvas, Portugal
https://col-antoniocachola.com/?lang=pt


Ceramics and brass
2024
© Rita Castro




Based on a set of works from the Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE), the Human Jar exhibition reflects on the idea of human singularity and the contemporary need for its evolution, which, through additions and accessories, resembles a human-object. The curatorial proposal interprets this phenomenon in favor of a hybrid body in which matter and volume are synthesized with metaphysics and poetry. Each of the works establishes a relationship of proximity and tension with the others, creating places that enable speculation, in a space that offers a parallel dimension, with its own logic and ecosystem, where bodies as we know them are no longer essential. Human Jar is an exercise about materiality and consciousness in the face of the increasing objectification of the body and a new contemporary perception of the human dimension. Throughout its journey, the public will not see themselves represented. The body slides into a secondary layer, and its presence is only revealed through places of passage, personification of objects, or the representation of practical scenarios. ​​​


Francisca Portugal and Sandra Vieira Jürgens 




Participating Artists: Proganó, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Ângela Ferreira, Bruno Zhu, Carla Filipe, Dalila Gonçalves, Daniel Blaufuks, Flávia Vieira, Gabriel Abrantes, Helena Lapas, Hernâni Reis Baptista, Igor Jesus, Inês Zenha, João Pedro Vale + Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, Lea Managil, Lourdes Castro, Luísa Cunha, Maria José Oliveira, Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela, Mónica de Miranda, Pedro Huet, Sara Graça, Sónia Almeida, Tomás Cunha Ferreira e Xana.