Artists: Andreas Angelidakis, Mircea Anghel, Vasco Araújo, José Pedro Cortes, Dovilė Dagienė, Joana Escoval, Diogo Evangelista, Sara Graça, Petrit Halilaj, Katja Novitskova, Tanja Ostojić, Vika Prokopaviciute, Tris Vonna-Michell
Exhibition title: nEYEYEght
Curated by: Valentinas Klimašauskas
Venue: Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon, Portugal
Date: May 20 – June 17, 2023
Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artists and Galeria Francisco Fino
Galeria Francisco Fino is pleased to announce the opening of the group show nEYEYEght, 20 May, from 3 to 8pm.
Andreas Angelidakis, Mircea Anghel, Vasco Araújo, José Pedro Cortes, Dovilė Dagienė, Joana Escoval, Diogo Evangelista, Sara Graça, Petrit Halilaj, Katja Novitskova, Tanja Ostojić, Vika Prokopaviciute, Tris Vonna-Michell
Curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas
Pointing to the accidental, generated or irregular openings in or outside the rather dark texture of current ecotechnological and sociopolitical reality, the exhibition’s formal and thematic focus is cuts, slits, (travelling through) portals, openings, mirrors, new (and old) opportunities, or other (psycho)active cavities.
The axial and symmetrical gallery space with a couple of arches and passages suggested constructing this exhibition as an experience of transitions through various openings that would strengthen their possible transformational qualities. Accordingly, the exhibition title nEYEYEght is a neologism that was made by using two visual one-word poems by Aram Saroyan – Night and EYEYE.
This way of thinking refers to the ancient function of artworks and exhibitions as transformational spaces which potentially would produce new words and worlds. Various bodily and material objects, spaces or mechanisms could be interpreted as polysemous tropes that stand for articulation, birth, and also for shaping, transforming, struggling, and experiencing: aesthetically, spatially, sexually, materially, politically and otherwise.
The exhibition’s aim is to enquire how this specific landscape of multiple openings and closures, stimulating constellations, positive hallucinations, gateless gates, etc., may activate today’s audience in the background of multiple ecological and sociopolitical transformations.
Petrit Halilaj, Friends of Chickens, 2022, Brass plate, stencil in the form of chicken legs, spray paint, 62 x 41 cm
Mircea Anghel, In control, 2023, Iron, copper, brass, explosion, black powder, 235 x 107 cm
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
José Pedro Cortes, Bar (I-II), Toyama, 2015, Inkjet print on Fine Art paper, 60 x 90 cm (each)
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
Joana Escoval, We do not work alone. To do the work and let it go, 2022, Earth, water, fire, air, 106,5 x 54 x 40 cm
Katja Novitskova, Gardens of the Galaxy, 2023, Video with sound, 10’
Petrit Halilaj, Friends of Chickens, 2022, Brass plate, stencil in the form of chicken legs, spray paint, 62 x 41 cm
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
Joana Escoval, Peripheral body energy, 2023, Brass, 166 x 38 x 41 cm
Katja Novitskova, Earthware (dreaming of a purple simian), 2022, UV printer ink, epoxy clay, nail polish, 87 x 97,5 x 3,5 cm
Katja Novitskova, Earthware (NYT), 2022, UV printer ink, epoxy clay, nail polish, 100 x 100 x 2,5 cm
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
Sara Graça, Problema na Porta, 2022, Wooden beads, threads, jeans, Aprox. 210 x 100 cm
Sara Graça, Jeni, 2022, Drawing on paper, found frame Aprox. 22 x 16 cm
Tris Vonnamichell, Collections & Collaborations (study I), 2023, 2 inkjet prints, 62 x 52 cm (each)
Katja Novitskova, Earthware (lab mouse seeing in infrared for the first time), 2019, UV printer ink, epoxy clay, nail polish, 98 x 151 x 3 cm
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
Andreas Angelidakis, Fantasy Ruins and the Fabric of Reality, 2022, Digital print on canvas, polyurethane foam, 100 x 75 x 75 cm
Andreas Angelidakis, On being high, 2022, Digital print on canvas, polyurethane foam, 100 x 75 x 75 cm
Andreas Angelidakis, On being high, 2022, Digital print on canvas, polyurethane foam, 100 x 75 x 75 cm
Andreas Angelidakis, On being high, 2022, Digital print on canvas, polyurethane foam, 100 x 75 x 75 cm
Diogo Evangelista, ZERO #4, 2023, Gold Acrylic Mirror, UV-cured paint, 150 x 106 cm
Diogo Evangelista, ZERO #5, 2023, Gold Acrylic Mirror, UV-cured paint, 150 x 106 cm
nEYEYEght, 2023, exhibition view, Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon
