Project MURMUR #2 Juliet and Juliet by Isabel Cordovil

Oct 10 - Mar 02

Where

Grand Hall

The MURMUR project is part of a programme of temporary exhibitions dedicated to presenting works by Portuguese and foreign artists, designed especially for the walls of the MACAM Grand Hall. In this second edition, curated by Carolina Quintela, Portuguese artist Isabel Cordovil (Lisbon, 1994) presents an installation in which she seeks to explore the tension between inherited identity and desired identity, between language and love, norm and otherness.

Cordovil's work investigates the politics of revisiting narratives — whether in myth, folklore, religion, literature, dreams or around the collective unconscious — and the new navigations or manipulations possible of them. Mainly through installation and sculpture, her work reflects a poetic language of playful metaphor, visual freedom and disobedience, while seeking new ways of belonging/challenging and celebrating otherness.

Isabel Cordovil

Isabel Cordovil (Lisbon, 1994). Cordovil's work investigates the politics of revisiting narratives — whether in myth, folklore, religion, literature, dreams or around the collective unconscious — and the new navigations or manipulations possible within them. Accepting language and symbols as the process of constructing meaning, the artist works to broaden their spectrums of agency. Despite its physical absence, the body, in Isabel Cordovil's practice, functions as a main subject, as a mediator between the self and the outside world, a measuring device, designed to explore themes related to (gender) identity, places of political discourse, finitude and death. Mainly through installation and sculpture, her work reflects a poetic language of playful metaphor, visual freedom and disobedience, while seeking new ways of belonging/challenging and celebrating otherness.