This September Joana Quiroga will present her research done during her time in Serbia in the framework of Artist's Menu project. Her work will be exhibited in the CK13 gallery.
"Half Fed" is about the possibility and the consequences of nourishment when it misses. Being it in the soul, history or future, when there is lack of nutrition, in a wide sense, one´s world freezes, undeveloped.
“Half Fed” is a conceptual work of art by Joana Quiroga that subtly thematizes the relationship between life and its environment, and problematizes the political dimension of that relationship – one that determines the ‘fate’ of the life process. The thematic object of work, as well as the very medium of Quiroga’s creative work she has been engaged in for many years, is bread, a matter as symbolic as real and concrete on a daily basis. In this work, bread is a living and life-giving substance, whose life, however, depends on the influence of the environment: the socio-historical environment actualized on a personal plane, “now and here”, through the question of how life continues, addressed to the visitor himself by calling for self-reflection in the light of our own actions and relations to our own environment.
Within the program of the Festival of Self-organizing, on Saturday from 5pm, in continuation of the presentation of the “Political School for Artists (and all interested)” the exhibition “Half Fed” by Brazilian artist Joana Quiroga will open at the CK13 Gallery. You can see the full program of the festival at the FB event. The exhibition can be viewed at Gallery CK13 until October 5.
Half Fed exhibition at CK13 3x3 gallery.2018
About Joana Quiroga
Joana Quiroga’s work examines daily life and its philosophical depth. She is currently researching the parallels between social inequality and bread. Joana understands her work as a dialog between social causes and the struggle for civil rights. In 2010, she completed her Master’s degree in philosophy from the Federal University of Espírito Santo, Vitória, with the aid of a FAPESP scholarship.