My Heart Belongs To You
Ana Jotta
2/5 series
Captures éditions
English
Softcover
1 A2 folded format sheet
Comes in a vanilla envelope containing posters from the 2/5 series, 2020-2022
420 x 594 mm
2020
ISBN 9782491549077
Ana Jotta (born in Lisbon, 1946) works over an existing drawing dating from the nineteen-fifties, unearthed at the flea market. This echoes her own experience when Portuguese high school students were invited to make life drawings on Almaço paper. The heart drawn on the vase also refers to a traditional motif used on Portuguese artisanal pottery. Folded into A4 size.
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About the Artist
Ana Jotta was born in Lisbon in 1946, where she works and lives. After studying at Lisbon´s Fine Arts School and Brussels’ École d’Arts Visuels de l’Abbeye de la Cambre, Ana worked as an actress and stage designer (1976-79) with “Produções Teatrais” (University Theatre, Lisbon). From 1980’s onwards, she focused her activity on the visual arts and has been a regular presence at major art fairs and biennales (ARCO, Brussels, Johannesburg, Barcelona, etc.). Ana Jotta has build her work in a sequence of breakthroughs that embody some sort of erasement: of her own previous footsteps; of modernist ideology and post-modern mythologies; and of the notion of authorship – either by deconstructing it or rebuilding it, she has attempted to dismantle the idea of a coherent or univocal style. Through a bare economy of means, her work shows a great sense of intelligence and wit. With Ana Jotta, you can always expect the unexpected. Ana Jotta has showed her work at the most prestigious foundations and institutions such as Le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France; Etablissement d’en face, Brussels and at Malmo Konsthall, Malmo. She also showed her work at Culturgest Porto with the exhibition “CASSANDRA”, Culturgest Lisboa with “A Conclusão da Precedente”, Museu de Serralves with “Rua Ana Jotta” and also in Casa de São Roque with the exhibition INVENTÓRIA. In 2013 she was awarded with the EDP Foundation Art Grand Prize and in 2014 with the AICA Award. Later in 2017 Ana Jotta received the Rosa Shapire Award, Kunsthalle, Hamburg.
https://www.artsy.net/artist/ana-jotta
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About the Publisher
2/5 falls into the artists’ books series published by Captures. Four guests per year work within the same space of an open A2 format sheet (420 x 594mm), giving rise to various proposals depending on how the sheet is folded.
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