Joana Vasconcelos (B. 1971)

‘Joanna Vasconcelos takes inspiration from the dominant views of the world in order to examine the multiple issues of society beneath an allegorical impulse. n deconstructing the values, habits and customs latent or manifest in mass cuture, the artist comments on today’s ways of living, particularly those rooted in collective identity, whether this arises from gender, class or nationality. Her sculptures are constructed with highly symbolic consumer good with strong visual efficiency, manipulated according to a given narrative or iconography. Having been ingeniously and carefully altered through different techniques, among which those inscribed within female working practices, these materials are transformed into conceptually complex and formally seductive objects’

(M. Amado, Bordaliana: Joana Vasconcelos, Lisbon 2009, unpaged).