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Featuring RU artist Beatriz Manteigas in the RU voices interview series 🎤
I FIND THAT VERY ODD was Beatriz Manteigas’ first solo exhibition in New York City.
As Félix Guattari argued in the 1980s, ecology can only be truly considered when environmental, social, and mental dimensions are addressed together. Aligned with this thinking, the exhibition brings together three series by Manteigas. They showcase distinct aesthetic approaches and narrative points of departure, yet all revolve around a sense of the uncanny in today’s state of art.
Manteigas often simultaneously works on multiple series to reference that art unfolds through processes rather than solely aiming at results. This also resonates with Guattari’s vision that one cannot afford to relax: one must continue improving through intersecting approaches and constantly revisiting through the courage to recognize one’s limits and differences, and through the creativity to transform them into new possibilities – always in relation to specific contexts, both within us and around us, from which there is no escape.
Beatriz Manteigas’ residency was made possible with support from FLAD – Luso-American Development Foundation, CABE 184/Arte em Acção Lda, and Associação Quinta das Relvas.
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