Phillips - Joana Vasconcelos: Material World

Joana Vasconcelos: Material World was exhibited at the Phillips gallery in Mayfair, London. The exhibition was held from 15 July to 28 August 2015. The exhibition features sculptures of her textured works which brought her to prominence during the 51st Venice Biennale. The exhibition is to coincide with Joana Vasconcelos’s Thames and Hudson monograph book.

The exhibition features bold, playful and a very colourful work to crochet coming together to form a unique style of sculptures. One large behemoth of a piece featured is Material Girl, brings not only to mind of Madonna’s hit singles back in the 80’s and among many at the exhibition, a real gem to behold.

Material Girl

It’s a take on it would seem that Joana Vasoncelos through the fabrication of the materials to form sculptures, making a statement on what she perceives as “Material World”. It almost like an alien world capturing different details playing on what’s familiar but bringing out a whole different side, witnessed in New Wave which employs LED lights, cushions and a picture frame. There’s also a section of ceramic animals showing Vasconcelos’s resilience in showing her art in different forms of animal snapshot poses with her signature spin. She can also inject some fun and humour into her work with Tea for Two, which is a double urinal coated in crochet.

Imperial

Glasshouse

Tea for Two

New Wave

Arthur

Merlin

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