ANA DE ALMEIDA
“Ficou
a ver
passar
navios.”
#ARTS-BASED RESEARCH #ARCHITECTURE #COMMONS #INSTALLATION #SPACE #MULTIMEDIA #IDENTITY #PERFORMANCE
#NEO-COLONIAL #VIDEO #GENDER
BIO. Ana de Almeida (b.1987) is an artist and author from Lisbon, currently based in Vienna. She is a member of the artists’
collective dienstag abendof
of VBKÖ and of the Interndinner collective against precarization of work in the cultural field. Her artistic practice addresses memory and remembering processes, narrative constructions that connect space and subject, and plurispatial and multilayered narratives in general.
Ana de Almeida is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, pursuing a doctoral thesis about the production of images in the 1974—1989 inter-revolutionary space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions.
Ana de Almeida is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna, pursuing a doctoral thesis about the production of images in the 1974—1989 inter-revolutionary space between the Carnation and the Velvet Revolutions.
Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalskaand & Vanja Smiljanic
NOVA. Future thoughts on surviving together (2020 AT)
Live Action Role Play
In the future, gender inequality was erased. Nova is a multitude of newly born, radically inclusive and self-managed communities. Heterogeneous in their forms of commoning and social organization, Nova share a vow to never let oppression in any form rise again. Nova. Future thoughts on surviving together is a feminist futurist LARP - Live Action Role Play by Ana de Almeida, Alicja Rogalska and Vanja Smiljanić; directed towards feminist and queer-feminist activists based in Vienna. NOVA is a day of speculative gaming aimed at sharing survival strategies, exercising solidarity and intersectionality, creating solidarity networks and forming new alliances between different emancipatory movements. Together, we created a piece of feminist political fiction - a work in progress and a world free of patriarchal oppression in the making.
With: VBKÖ, Saloon Wien, Kunst & Kind, Latinxs Unidxs, Kültür Gemma, Cine Collective, Mala Sirena, female:pressure.
A Casa / The House The flat / Die Fläche (2018 PT)
MDF, stucco-lustro, stereo sound 42'5'' looped
Likewise a sculpture, A Casa (The House) shares the aesthetic and architectonic language of the House Wittgenstein in Vienna. The two volumes are a transposition and folding down of two of its architectonic elements: a window and the vestibule door. They serve as display for documental material such as letters and photos and incorporate an audio piece with interviews led by the artist. The surface is covered by stucco-lustro, a coating technique proliferating in Vienna on the turn to the 20th century, similar to how could the original coating of the walls of the House Wittgenstein have looked like before they were painted white after World War II. The highlighting of the stucco-lustro architectonic detail points out to a fundamental discovery for the understanding of the house as aesthetic experiment in which the house interiors, composed by materials which evoke extreme hardness, seem to dematerialize through the highly reflecting properties of the stucco walls.
Photos: © Ana de Almeida & Stephanie Misa
Untitled (Yellow) (2017 PT)
Wall, yellow paint, memorabilia, diashow, stereo sound
A cooperation between Ana de Almeida (PT/AT) and Stephanie Misa (PH/AT) . This is a project about landscape as formal and informal disposition of elements. Coordinates. An arrangement, a hierarchy: borders and de-limitations, transpositions and transgressions, frames and their inside-outside, margins, and of course landscape — of the geographical, political, personal, and emotional nature. Edouard Glissant’s Traité du Tout-Monde. (Poétique IV), calls it archipelagic thinking, a group of islands that lends its topography to an alternative imaginary: a reassessment of the insularity of bound cultures, of nation-states, and the heaviness of “continental thought”. The archipelago is an alternative imaginary, one that posits that identity could be as a conglomeration of islands (composed of many, yet is one). Identity formation, embodiment, complex colonial histories, evolution, interconnectedness, diaspora and change — Oh to dispell the oppressive idea of nationalistic wholeness!
ANA LOUREIRO
“My focus
is on the
most
hidden
substrate of
introspection.”
#COLLAGE #DRAWING #INSTALLATION #DIGITAL #PHOTOGRAPHY #SPACE #ARCHITECTURE #PERCEPTION #VIDEO #DRAWING
BIO. Ana Loureiro (Portugal, 1991) is a visual artist living and working in Vienna. She graduated in Fine Arts - Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto University and attended the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna during her last graduation semester. Currently, her artistic practice focuses in the relationship between architecture/space and its inner memories, taking in consideration her personal experience and through a multidisciplinary approach. Her projects have been presented in several countries: Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia, Belgium, England and Portugal.
Photos:
©
Ana Loureiro
Sensory Submersion/ Boundaries of Reality (2020)
Photography, animation, video 5:37 min
In the project Boundaries of reality was explored the relationships with ourn private spaces, our personal belongings and their inner characteristics. Both in the physical and virtual plans - all inside the four walls of our living space. It is a result of the almost five months analysis of our individual experiences with our houses. That relationship was inevitably intensified due to the pandemic. That new global condition forced us to locked inside our homes for an uncertain period which leaded to new housing meanings and a lost perception of time. Home became a place not just for living our intimacy but also a main stage for outsideroutines and intensive virtual socializing. This project questions the boundaries of reality: when does it start? When does it finish? Is this the true depiction of what happened or result of the imagination? Maybe, a mixture of both.
This was a group project together with the artist Marko Lončarević in the frame of the initiative Questionme&Answer
Photos: ©Ana Loureiro
Echoic serie (2020)
Photography, drawing, painting, sound installation
"Echoic", is a result of a long-term reflection about memory and space. About my relationship with the places I lived in and their inner memories. Those memories, subsisted in a plurality of matters: in objects, photographs or documents. Either, in the memory that I had from the houses area and the floor plan drawn.
This time a new sensory memory is added: an echoic memory made of sounds which inhabit objects. A sensory memory which records specific auditory informations.
For over 20 years, I was revisiting the same region although different beaches. However, with the same involuntary act of collecting shells. With the innocent intention and believe of bringing a small piece of the ocean to home. This was not a random souvenir. It was created by Nature and it preserves all of its characteristics. It preserves a sound from its habitat, which is audible when it’s close to the ear.
At that point, the two subcategories of sensory memory – the iconic and the echoic – intersect.
Photos: ©Ana Loureiro
Tell me how was your day? Fragments of a trapped soul (2020)
Photograghy
“Tell me, how was your day? Fragments of a trapped soul” is a daily series of small format photos instax mini fujifilm which documents and portraits my relationship with my home during the isolation days. That relationship was intense since the office, sleeping area and kitchen are all in the same place. It is a very mysterious approach that depicts the progressive dissolution of boundaries between the house’s divisions and between what meant to remain private or public.
My body freedom was trapped during more than 2 months inside less than 30 m2 which led to repercussions in my psychological and physical well-being.
In every photo is registered the day and month that it was taken followed by a word or a sentence which describes the scene or object. Sometimes in a direct way other times subliminal and more like a mirror of my mental state with a touch of irony.