Visual Elements: The artwork features a bold, textured black-and-white composition. The central text, "THE TIME NOT LEFT TO HEAL," is prominently displayed in a rough, expressive style that commands attention.
Subject Matter: The image depicts a message or text-based work that conveys a sense of urgency, loss, or unresolved healing.
Artistic Style and Technique: The work exhibits a raw, graffiti-like aesthetic, with the text appearing to be hastily scrawled or sprayed onto the surface. The technique creates a sense of immediacy and emotional intensity.
Context: The artist's intention behind this piece may be to address societal or personal issues that require time and healing, conveying a poignant message about the fragility of the human experience. ...
Jota Mombaça is an interdisciplinary artist whose work derives from poetry, critical theory, and performance. The sonic and visual matter of words plays an important role in their practice, which often relates to anti-colonial critique and gender disobedience. Through performance, visionary fiction, and situational strategies of knowledge production, they intend to rehearse the end of the world as we know it and the figuration of what comes after we dislodge the Modern-Colonial subject off its podium. ...
Founded in São Paulo in 2011, Galeria Jaqueline Martins is a space for research, documentation and presentation of contemporary artistic production. It proposes collaborative curatorial strategies that foster dialogue between different generations and different cultural perspectives. One of its guiding principles is the encouragement of research-oriented conceptualist practices characterized by critical, even subversive, approaches. Since its inauguration, the gallery has developed a special program around the investigation of artistic productions carried out during the Brazilian military period – more specifically from the 1970s and 1980s. It promotes a historical revision of processes grounded on strong intellectual resistance, audacity and commitment to art and which transformed the artistic practice in the country, but nonetheless were neglected throughout the last decades. By integrating research and practice that confront the contemporary scene by means of its exhibition program, the gallery encourages the revival of the debate that conceives of artistic actions as contact zones for the exercise of aesthetic, social and political change. In 2020 the gallery opened its second exhibition space, in Brussels, aiming to expand our presence in Europe and to develop a multidisciplinary program that will foster connections between our artists and Brazilian art practices in an international context. ...
