João Motta Guedes
Work
How to live?, 2023
Every poem searches for a way, 2023
We follow the road, 2023
Untitled (The sun that bleeds), 2023
You came to start the revolution, 2023
Just keep walking (if you can), 2022
This sign is an act of love, 2022
Untitled (how small a thought it takes), 2022
Monument to Kafka, 2022
Untitled (human condition), 2022
untitled (growing pains), 2022
Freedom song, 2022
Who owns whom? 2021
Flight into the blue, 2019
Writing the Infinite Poem, 2019
Texts / Press
Umbigo - How to live?
Umbigo - Wanderlust
Rato al sol - do it yourself
FITA Magazine - Vol. IV
Le monde diplomatique
Bio
João Motta Guedes, 1995
Based in Lisbon, Portugal.
João Motta Guedes explores concepts of freedom, vulnerability, love, justice and violence. His artistic productions reflect on life as a metaphor for a journey where different paths emerge, allowing the discovery and sharing of experiences about the meaning of feeling and being human.
His artistic language appears in media such as installation, sculpture, photography, drawing, written words and poetry, and has a predominantly projectual and experimentalist nature.
Based on a poetic discourse and narratives, it seeks to question the way forward through oniric expressions that elevate the observer to a utopian look at society and life, resulting in a comprehensive record of symbolic and metaphorical images that enhance poetry as the answer to the formulated questions.
Education
2013-2018 Law (BA), University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (PT)
2018-2018 Study exchange program, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (BR)
2018-2021 International and European Law (MA), NOVA University of Lisbon, Faculty of Law (PT)
2019-2023 Painting, (MFA), University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine Arts(PT)
Solo Exhibitions
>>> 2023, "How To Live?", Galeria NAVE (Lisboa, PT)
2023, "You came to start the revolution", ZDB, Lisbon (PT)
Group Exhibitions
>>> 12.10.2023 "Prémio Arte Jovem 2023", P31 Centro Hospitalar Psiquiátrico de Lisboa (PT)
2023, "Gémeos falsos", Appleton square, curated by Diogo Ramalho and Mercedes Vidal-Abarca, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "O encantado só anda no horário da maré", Garagem, curated by Tiago Alexandre, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "Olhos nos olhos", Galeria Graça Brandão, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "The garden of forking paths", Buraco, Lisbon (PT)
2023, "Wanderlust", Galeria Artes - Mota Galiza, Porto, (PT)
2022, "(0/1) o zero e o um", Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência (MUNHAC), Lisbon, (PT)
2022, “Pára, Depára-te”, Fábrica do Braço de Prata, Lisbon (PT)
2022, “GABA”, Faculdade de Belas-Artes, Lisbon (PT)
2021, “BABEL”, Palacete Burnay - Biblioteca de Alcântara, Lisbon (PT)
2021, “O Símbolo de uma Pandemia”, Cisterna da Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisbon (PT)
2020, “Como bebe uma flor”, Jardim das Amoreiras, Lisbon (PT)
2020, “Alunos da FBAUL”, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon (PT)
2020, “Tendas”, Escola Manuel da Maia, Lisbon (PT)
2020, “Pop Up”, Faculdade de Belas-Artes de Lisbon (PT)
2019, “Coexistência e Negociação”, Museu Condes de Castro Guimarães, Cascais (PT)
Awards
2023 PRÉMIO ARTE JOVEM FUNDAÇÃO MILLENIUM BCP, Lisbon (PT)
2020 PRÉMIO DE PINTURA DOS ALUNOS DA FBAUL, Travessa da Ermida, Lisbon (PT)
2020 1º PRÉMIO DE CURTA-METRAGEM SÉNIOR, Prémio Filo-Lisboa “ Quem sou eu neste novo mundo?”, Lisbon (PT)
Residencies
>>> Jan/Feb/Mar. 2024 GLOGAU AIR, Berlin (DE)
2021, “CHAPIM, Pousio”, Centro de Estudos de Novas Tendências Artísticas (CENTA), na Tapada da Tojeira, Vila Velha de Ródão (PT)
2020, “TENDAS, Base”, MArt Escola de Artes, Lisbon (PT)
Fairs
2023, Arco Lisboa
Projects
2018 – Present, Researcher on the project: “COSMOS – COSMOPOLITISM: justice, democracy and citizenship without borders”. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (PT)
2020 – 2022, Member of the Association “Pousio Arte e Cultura” (PT)
(Selected) Publications
2023, "Responses to Untitled (eye with comet) (c. 1985) by Paul Thek", Pilot Press, London (UK).
2022, "(0/1) o zero e o um", MUHNAC (Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência), (PT).
2022, "FBAUL 2011-21, Prémios /Awards", Faculdade de Belas Artes (PT).
2021, "O símbolo de uma Pandemia - Exposição na Fbaul", (PT).
2020, "Alunos da Fbaul na Ermida - prémio de pintura", Travessa da Ermida, (PT).
2020, "Invisible". In: Crise Pandémica: Quem sou eu neste novo mundo? Prémio de Literatura e Curta-Metragem Filo-Lisboa 2020", (PT).
(Selected) Academic Publications
2023, “A Negatividade da Estética do Direito: o Direito enquanto relação social fluída e a estética dos Direitos Humanos” in Aventuras Cosmopolitas, edit. Nour Sckell, Soraya, Lisboa.
2022, “Aesthetics of Human Rights: Images that provoke citizenship”, in Human(ities &) Rights Global Network Journal.
2020, "The aesthetics of the political image: On the paintings of Rugendas following the steps of Humboldt". In To grasp the whole world, (1E1A-F84D-D048) edit. Nour Sckell, Soraya. Berlim, Germany: Duncker & Humboldt.
2020, A cidadania segundo Hannah Arendt e a ideia de uma "cidadania universal" como fundamento dos Direitos Humanos: uma utopia possível?". In Visões de Mundo: Dimensão Jurídica,Lisboa, CEDIS.
Collections
Collection Famille Servais, Brussels (BE)
Coleção de Arte Contemporânea de Joaquim Ferro, Lisbon(PT)
Colecção José Costa Rodrigues, Lisbon (PT)
Contact
j.damottaguedes@gmail.com
@joaomottaguedes
Represented by Galeria Nave
nave@nave.com