Júlia Ventura

Júlia Ventura is an internationally renowned artist based in Portugal and the Netherlands. For her exhibition at Lumiar Cité she has developed an installation that for the first time brings together new photographic works with what she calls ‘objects of interest’.

In her installation Irreparável, Ventura merges several groups of work. Two large-format photographs sit in a long line of her well-known explorations of visual philosophies. Here, her appearance in front of the camera by way of a staged self creates a tension that derives from photography’s traditional claim of representing reality. Paradoxically, by over-performing in these works she approaches the real through the abstract.

These images are juxtaposed with others captured in Tunisia, a country with which the artist has close personal ties, and that have a political-documentary as well as autobiographical meaning. These works are contextualised by 500 Arabic women’s names that are listed in Arabic at the beginning of the exhibition.

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