More information about the group exhibition SINGSONG.
Grains of Magical Water
Inkjet printing, 2024
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Live sound piece
Photograph taken in the Arctic Ocean, near Kjelvik – an island where witches were once burned. Water, matter with idiosyncratic properties, present in everything and everyone, like a living being with memory. A magical element that purifies wherever it goes.
Adriana João (1998) lives and works in Lisbon. She began her musical studies in 2005 at the Joly Braga Santos Conservatory in Portimão, where she studied violin until 2013. She attended the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon, where she graduated in Multimedia Art – Performance / Installation, and post-graduated in both Sound Art and Multimedia Art – Moving Image.
Her transdisciplinary and intuitive work blends sound, moving image, performance, sculpture, photography and installation. It emerges from subtle coincidences present in the perpetual immaterial link between everything that exists, hovering between perfect and imperfect intertwined cycles, and patterns that derive from common tangents.
He has exhibited, played and done artistic residencies regularly in Portugal and abroad, including Cité Internationale des Arts à Montmartre (Paris), Galeria Zé dos Bois (Lisbon), Jardim da Galeria Quadrum – Galerias Municipais de Lisboa (Lisbon), Mayhem (Copenhagen), Frappant Gallery (Hamburg), Alfaia (Loulé), Cosmos (Lisbon), NyMusikk / Particular Universal (Magerøya), Jardins Efémeros (Viseu), Zaratan (Lisbon), EGEU (Lisbon), Teatro Ibérico (Lisbon), Passos Manuel (Porto), Galeria Espírito Santo (Loulé), Casa do Capitão (Lisbon), Hub Creativo do Beato / Confeitaria – Sonár Lisboa (Lisbon), Sala Lisa (Lisbon), Cossoul (Lisbon), Galeria Novo Século (Lisbon), Teatro da Garagem (Lisbon), Culturgest (Lisbon), Haapsalu kultuurikeskus (Haapsalu), Museu de Lisboa / Palácio Pimenta – Lisboa Soa (Lisbon), Guardiões do Mira (Odemira), Ponto d’Orvalho (Montemor-o-Novo), Arbag (Lisbon), mono (Lisbon), 360 Records Shop (New York), Nitja Centre for Contemporary Art (Lillestrøm), Teatro de São Luiz (Lisbon).
She is co-founder of TEIA radio. She has collaborated with different artists, curators and musicians, such as Róisín Berkeley, Polido, David Revés, Pedreira, Pedro Tavares, Violeta Azevedo, Pedro Alves Sousa, Grupo de Música Contemporânea de Lisboa, Mariana Pestana, João Reis, Guilherme Vilhena, Seán Being, Francisca Portugal, Filipa Oliveira, Leonor Carrilho, André Cepeda, Alexandre Estrela.
