Joana Quiroga
Coming from a academic background in Philosophy, Joana Quiroga became a visual artist to give Philosophy a closer presence to everyday life. In her work, she investigates how different power relations, and their consequent inequalities, can live hidden in our daily lives. To do this, she “zooms in” on things normally considered “obvious”, like air, bread, time, water, stomach. Much more than an accusation or an abstraction, she wants to ask with things about who we are, in a sincere quest for other understandings (and with that, changes), also to question the trust in the human and rational capacity to think. That’s why she also takes everything she does as one thing: from a text, to an installation, and the way she keeps the relationships cultivated on this journey, one complements each other, reflecting her vision of life, her questions and desire for new answers. At the moment her main research is on how it is possible to reflect on social inequality through bread and wheat, asking how they may have influenced our (western) way of thinking. She has participated in exhibitions, projects and residencies in Germany, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Brazil France and Romania.
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