João Penalva
01 Nov 2008 - 24 Jan 2009
Pavlina, 2007
Edition 3 + 1 P.A.
Installation of two synchronized projections.
Duration: 10 minutes and 16 seconds, looped.
Slides projection of 81 slides; video projection of a super 16 mm film transferred to DVD. Colour, sound.
Photo credit: Roberto Rubalcava
Courtesy: Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Edition 3 + 1 P.A.
Installation of two synchronized projections.
Duration: 10 minutes and 16 seconds, looped.
Slides projection of 81 slides; video projection of a super 16 mm film transferred to DVD. Colour, sound.
Photo credit: Roberto Rubalcava
Courtesy: Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Installation view of the series "Khosoko-doro" (2006-2008)
Opening Reception: Friday, 31 October, 6-9 pm
Portuguese artist João Penalva, a resident of London since 1976, calls himself a storyteller. Like a writer, in his videos, photographs, objects, and installations, he creates what appear to be actual worlds where his fiction intersects with real, observed situations to form new realities. By fusing performance and visual art, Penalva seduces his audience to visualize other places alongside the projected images, images of other places, other peoples and times, thus forcing us to question the semblance of reality as a fiction. In this exhibition Penalva presents his 2007 video installation "Pavlina" - a simultaneous slide and video projection - and other text and photography works. The architectural series "The Khosoku-Doro" shows images of Tokyo's Expressways through the city, made to resemble film stills with the addition of short versions of their possible plots.
João Penalva will be present at the Opening Reception on Friday, 31 October, 6-9pm.
Portuguese artist João Penalva, a resident of London since 1976, calls himself a storyteller. Like a writer, in his videos, photographs, objects, and installations, he creates what appear to be actual worlds where his fiction intersects with real, observed situations to form new realities. By fusing performance and visual art, Penalva seduces his audience to visualize other places alongside the projected images, images of other places, other peoples and times, thus forcing us to question the semblance of reality as a fiction. In this exhibition Penalva presents his 2007 video installation "Pavlina" - a simultaneous slide and video projection - and other text and photography works. The architectural series "The Khosoku-Doro" shows images of Tokyo's Expressways through the city, made to resemble film stills with the addition of short versions of their possible plots.
João Penalva will be present at the Opening Reception on Friday, 31 October, 6-9pm.