Artists: Cecile B Evans, Neil Beloufa, Antoine Catala, Diogo Evangelista, Oliver Laric, Shana Moulton, Katja Novitskova, Laure Prouvost, Magali Reus
Exhibition title: Hybridize or Disappear
Curated by: João Laia
Venue: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Date: April 9 – May 24, 2015
Photography: Bruno Lopes, courtesy of the artists/galleries and National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon
The exhibition looks at how contemporary visual culture has been progressively mutating towards models where seemingly opposite dimensions come together to create hybrid forms: material and virtual, textual and objectual, organic and artificial, consumerism and spirituality have been merging and blurring previously defined boundaries. Hybridize or Disappear analyses artistic practices where the visual is handled as matter and brought into a dialogue with sculptural forms. Objects become images and images become objects in a process that surpasses pure visuality towards a more expanded engagement with the visual where the body holds a central position, becoming a depicted object as well as an instrument of interaction.
Cécile B. Evans, Lost, Teeth, 2014
Antoine Catala, Empathic Paul, 2015
Data for desire: Rationalised room, small apartment and coffee, 2015
Shana Moulton, Swisspering, 2013
Oliver Laric, Versions, 2012
Laure Prouvost, THIS SIGN IS A HEAVY BRANCH JUST BEING CUT BY A CHAINSAW AND FALLING JUST ON YOUR RIGHT, 2014
Diogo Evangelista, Untitled (hand #1), 2014
Shana Moulton, Detached Inner Eye, 2015
Neil Beloufa, Maya in Lisboa, 2015
Diogo Evangelista, Untitled (full moon), 2015
Diogo Evangelista, Untitled (hand #2), 2014
Magali Reus, Highly Liquid, 2013
Katja Novitskova, Branching (green forest), 2014
Katja Novitskova, Branching (green forest), 2014
