Artist Name: Daniela Ângelo
Residency Dates: September – November 2024
Born: 1996
Hometown: Almada, Portugal
Lives & Works: Lisbon, Portugal
URL: franciscofino.com | Instagram: @daniela.ventura.angelo
Gallery: Francisco Fino Gallery
Education: 2019 | Ar.Co – Center for Art and Visual Communication
Bio/Statement:
Daniela Ângelo appropriates objects from the everyday life and museum collections for re-signify and rehearse new narratives that question the production mechanisms of knowledge and collective memory. Objects are selected in a programmatic way, isolated from external references and portrayed in a surrealist atmosphere, through rigorous work of light that allows the crystallization of its sculptural qualities.
“Far from the supposed photographic realism, these presences that appear in Daniela Ângelo’s images are nothing more than the result of the camera’s supposedly objective exercise in recording an object, suppressed by a subjective shift in its intention. In other words, what we see is, in fact, what exists within the museum collections, but rendered unrecognizable through aesthetic mechanisms that break with the supposed photographic objectivity. In this game, formed between the incidence of light on the photosensitive surface and the displacement of the direct and objective representation of the object — already extensively analyzed by the theory of Photography —, a mechanism emerges to confront the “real”, revealing its ideological and subjective character, often sublimated.” – Paula Ferreira for Contemporânea Magazine.
Daniela Ângelo has recently held solo exhibitions in 2024 at the Capuchos Convent, in Almada, and Boavista Gallery, in Lisbon, and in 2023 at Ocupa Gallery, in Porto. Ângelo was nominated for Plat(t)form 2024 by the Fotomuseum of Winterthur, Switzerland, and for the shortlist of the Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial, in 2021, and since then she has participated in several group exhibitions: (2024) Highly Confusing Times, Arbag, Lisbon; Sempre e Nunca Mais, Elvas Contemporary Art Museum, Elvas; (2023) Nucleossíntese: with Miguel Palma, Helder Alfaiate Gallery, Ericeira; Taking the Light Out of the Prism, Duplex, Lisbon; We Loved Each Other for One Month, Galeria Francisco Fino Gallery, Lisbon; Contravisões, Part II, Elvas Contemporary Art Museum, Elvas; Por um Mundo de Muitos Mundos, Francisco Fino Gallery, Lisbon; O Encantado Só Anda no Horário da Maré, Graça; (2022) Perguntas À Ficção, Edifício Arco-Íris, Elvas; Quem Nos Salva?, Elvas Contemporary Art Museum, Elvas; Matter-Affect, No-No Gallery, Lisbon; Sleepers Eyes, Buraco, Estrela; Gravitas, Leal Rios Foundation, Lisboa; Depois do Banquete, Thalia Theater, Lisbon; (2021) Error 417: Expectation Failed, Municipal Gallery of Porto, Porto; Casa da Dona Laura Itinerante, Casa do Capitão, Lisbon; BF20 – Vila Franca de Xira Photograhpy Biennial, Vila Franca de Xira, Lisbon. In 2021, she was invited to participate in the conversation “Lisbon Year Zero: with Catarina Botelho and David Gueniot”, at Bairro Alto Theater, Lisbon.
Support: Daniela Ângelo’s residency is made possible with support from Atelier Museu Júlio Pomar.
