JOANA PASSOS

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In Joana’s work she tries to model different materials exploring their different behaviours to the same type of intervention. Throughout this process she looks for the fragilities of the materials, what their physical and plastic qualities are and how they behave after the human intervention. At the same time, she intends to contradict the normal use of the materials. Tries to understand its weight, its relation to space and its stability.

 

This modelling of objects involves folding them, finding their corners, creating creases, and the textures it causes. These processes are carried out in fabric, rubber, plaster, brass, among others. Thus begins a huge conversation between several materials that are related by their manipulation.

 

Joana feels undoubtedly a dissatisfaction with the limits of painting. It is this kind of experience that attracts her interest in sculpture, and opens the door to an objecthood world. The relation between the piece and the space is intrinsic and the way how the piece is installed can define a space. Throughout materiality, she reactivates some of the legacy left by different artists who, in the 50s and 60s, opened up new possibilities for painting through the investigation of its flat surface and its origin of object.

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