João Motta Guedes

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João Motta Guedes, Lisbon, 1995.

João Motta Guedes explores concepts of freedom, vulnerability, love and violence. His artistic productions reflect on life as a metaphor for a journey where different paths emerge, allowing the discovery and sharing of experiences about the meaning of feeling and being human.

His artistic language appears in media such as installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, written words and poetry, and has a predominantly projectual and experimentalist nature.

Based on a poetic discourse and narratives, it seeks to question the way forward through oniric expressions that elevate the observer to a utopian look at society and life, resulting in a comprehensive record of symbolic and metaphorical images that enhance poetry as the answer to the formulated questions.

GlogauAIR Project

The project No feeling is final investigates the tensions between freedom, love, and violence in the context of rave culture. it seeks to inquire and artistically expand on the power dynamics and intimate relations in situations of extreme violence and absolute freedom of rave environments. It is from this polarity that it is opened a wide range of issues where oppressed and oppressing forces collide, ranging from a variety of topics such as love, sex, drugs, tripping, freedom, violence and vulnerability.

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CV Summary

• Holds a BA and MA in Law, and a MFA in painting.
• Member of the research project, “Cosmopolitanism: Justice, Democracy and Citizenship without borders”, having participated in several conferences and academic publications.
• Exhibited regularly since 2019, integrating group exhibitions such as “0/1, o zero e o um”, at MUNHAC, “Wanderlust” at Galeria Mota-Galiza, or “The Garden of forking paths” at Buraco.
• In 2023 he had two solo exhibitions, “You came to start the revolution” at Galeria Zé dos Bois, and “How to live?” at Galeria NAVE.
• In 2020, he was awarded the “alunos da fbaul na ermida” prize and also the 1st prize in the video category of the award “Filo-Lisboa 2020”; and in 2023, the award “Arte Jovem Fundação Millennium BCP”.
• Represented by Galeria NAVE.

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