Joana Vasconcelos is a Portuguese artist, born in Paris.
In a very young age returned with her parents to Portugal.
Inspired by the place that she lives: Lisbon, Vasconcelos uses the products and materials of the Portuguese daily life, creating pieces of art with themes that focus on politics of gender, kitsch and traditional Portuguese imagery, identity and class in a very strong and dominant way mixing nostalgia and irony. She force us to think about the taboos of the female sexuality, the place of women or the consumer’s society and culture.
Her work is mainly made on a large scale for galleries and public art spaces with materials from daily basis all made with a meticulous craftsmanship.
Joana’s work is exhibited around the world in a number of group shows and many solo shows.
Project Piano Dentelle:
This is an all covered piano with hand made Portuguese crochet. This piece required a big amount of time and meticulous skills of craftsmanship.
Varina:
Varina is a public space installation suspended in D. Luís I Bridge in Porto.
The name Varina is given to the women how sell fish in the markets and streets of Porto dressed with their typical seven layered skirts.
The piece haves 35 x 15 meters. It took six months and almost 1000 women to knit it and haves a weight of 500kg.
Contaminação:
Contamination is the biggest exhibition that Joana Vasconcelos did so far.
Specially conceived for the Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, the pieces interacts with the architecture from celling to ground.
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