spirits and rocks
[ no calm seas ]


ADRIENNE ELISE TARVER, DIOGO EVANGELISTA, PEDRO VAZ

Curated By Camila Maissune

CURATOR

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CAMILA MAISSUNE

Camila Maissune (Mozambique, 1985), independent curator, holds a B.A. in Social Sciences with a focus in Visual Anthropology and an M.A. and PhD in Arts and Visual Culture. Co-founder and publishing director at WATA (Lisbon), a written conceptual laboratory exploring the interrelated themes of ecological and human diasporas, she currently collaborates as researcher and curatorial assistant at Maat - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (Lisbon), as well as director of publications at Re_Act Contemporary (Azores). She currently teaches and coordinates the Visual and Digital Arts course at the Cascais School of Arts & Design.

ARTISTS

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Adrienne Elise Tarver

Adrienne Elise Tarver is an interdisciplinary artist with a practice that spans painting, sculpture, installation, photography, textiles, and video. Her work addresses the complexity and invisibility of black female identity from the history within domestic spaces to the fantasy of the tropical seductress to the archetype of the all-knowing spiritual matriarch.

She has exhibited nationally and abroad, including solo shows at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Connecticut; the Academy Art Museum in Maryland; Atlanta Contemporary in Atlanta, Georgia; Dinner Gallery (formerly Victori+Mo) in New York; Ochi Projects in Los Angeles; Wave Hill in the Bronx, NY; BRIC Project Room in Brooklyn; and A-M Gallery in Sydney, Australia and two-person exhibitions at Hollis Taggart in New York; Wedge Curatorial in Toronto, Canada. She has been commissioned for projects through the New York MTA, the Public Art Fund, Google, Art Aspen, and Pulse Art Fair and has been featured in online and print publications including the New York Times, Forbes, Brooklyn Magazine, ArtNews, ArtNet, Blouin ArtInfo, Whitewall Magazine, and Hyperallergic, among others. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Boston University. Adrienne is represented in Los Angeles, CA and Sun Valley, ID by OCHI

Diogo Evangelista

Diogo Evangelista (1984, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. With a multidisciplinary practice, his work revolves around themes of desire and transformation, exploring the animist potential that the human imagination has to appropriate concepts, images and environments. His work, in its multiple forms – sculpture, drawing, painting, and video – explores the interstitial zones between art, science, realism, fiction, technology and nature. Evangelista graduated in Fine Arts from the Lisbon University School of Fine Arts in 2008. In 2019/20 he collaborated with the post-graduation in New Media of the Catholic University of Oporto. Between 2012 and 2015 he was a co-founder of the artist-run space Parkour-Lisbon.

Recent exhibitions include: Magnetic Fields (Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon, 2022), Iris (Brotéria, Lisbon, 2021), Blind Faith (UCP – Escola das Artes, Oporto, 2020), Old Sins (Armário, Lisbon, 2020), Organic Machinery (Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon, 2019) Spinning Wheel (CAC, Vilnius, 2018), Greater Than the Sum (DRAF, London, 2017) Espaço de Fluxos (ZDB, Lisbon, 2017) Utopia/Dystopia (MAAT, Lisbon, 2017), The Eighth Climate (What Does Art Do?) (11th Gwangju Biennale, 2016), Matter Fictions (Museu Coleção Berardo, Lisbon, 2016 ), H Y P E R C O N N E C T E D (MMOMA, Moscow, 2016), Magician’s Right Hand, (Futura, Prague, 2016), Hybridize or Disappear (Museu do Chiado – Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, 2015), As one hand touches the other (Videoex, Zurich, 2015), Between the spider and the mind there is a hand – Outdoor I (Warm, São Paulo, 2015), BES Revelação (Serralves Museum, Oporto, Portugal, 2014) and The World of Interiors (The Green Parrot, Barcelona, 2014).

Pedro Vaz

Pedro Vaz was born in 1977 in Maputo, Mozambique and now lives and works in Lisbon. He graduated from the Universidade de Belas Artes, Lisboa, Portugal in 2006. His work is based on the subjects of nature and landscape, and he works mostly in painting and video-installation. Personal contact with real environments is fundamental to his practice and these projects often include a tour. His process alternates between immersing himself in nature through expeditions and experiencing the abstracting qualities memory has when working in the studio. In 2021 he presented the solo exhibition, Num único acorde, at CAB - Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos, Burgos, Spain. He has participated in the following group exhibitions: Loops.Expanded, 2021, at MNAC - National Museum of Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal; LA TORMENTA, 2020, Cultural Center Teopanzolco, Cuernavaca, Mexico; O Olhar Divergente, 2019, Arquipélago - Contemporary Arts Center, Azores, Portugal; After the shock, the tropics, 2018, Galeria Luísa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil; Second Nature, 2018, The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C., USA; Second Nature, 2016, MAAT - Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal; Link, Ano Zero - Biennal de Coimbra, 2015, Coimbra, Portugal. His work is in museum collections, at CAM - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Fundação de Serralves, in Oporto, Portugal; MAAT - Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal; Centro de Arte Caja de Burgos - CAB, Burgos, Spain, amongst others.