Ana Cláudia Almeida and Tádáskia: A Joyner/Giuffrida Visiting Artists Program
Ana Cláudia Almeida and Tadáskía collaborate on an expansive wall project exploring the spiritual dimensions of visual form with hybrid approaches to painting and drawing.
Through prints, paintings and drawings, Almeida creates movements on fabric and paper reflectioning on religion, nature and sexuality, as well as the constant mutability underlying both life and artistic making. Almeida's work is paired with Tadáskía's graphic tangles of colours and lines inviting us to follow the winding forms mediating a familiar earthly world and a far-off mystical space.
Both artists emphasise change, in their material processes—through the transference of gestures across different supports—and in the transitive, ever-shifting images they create. Though abstract, the work teases association with otherworldly landscapes and trance-like visions. A sort of ritual enactment of the joining of artwork, Almeida and Tadáskía render a panoramic tableau sprawling along the wall in the Museum's Theater Gallery.
