Querela is Liz Craft’s first solo exhibition in Portugal. The American artist, based in Los Angeles and New York, brings to Galeria Zé dos Bois a selection of recent pieces, representative of an artistic realm marked by the influence of popular culture and a subtle, sardonic defiance of the conventions of the art world. Composed mainly of sculptures – most of which are produced using so-called traditional techniques – Liz Craft’s exhibitions resemble scenes born out of a Theater of the Absurd. Its characters, props, and situations often collude in building uncanny and eschatological settings, full of irony and a derisive critique of the moral, sexual, and snooty cultural expectations of the western world.
