Metabolic Self
Andreia Santana
Curated by Lili-Rebeka Toth
November 4th -November 28th
Opening reception November 4, 6-9 pm
GHOSTMACHINE Gallery is pleased to present Andreia Santana’s first solo exhibition in New York, showcasing sculptural works that deconstruct and redefine materiality and the boundaries between the corporeal, the natural, and the built environment. Through spatial and atmospheric transformations, Metabolic Self presents sculptures resembling garments that suggest a human body while withholding its physical form. By highlighting how our perception of the self relies on physical appearance, Santana’s work begins to dismantle the social conventions that construct and shape the subject. By granting agency to matter, the sculptures become active participants in transcorporeal processes, intra-acting across the boundaries between subject and object, animate and inanimate, and challenging established norms and assumptions about the body.
Lili Rebeka Tóth (Budapest, 1996) is an independent curator, art writer, and editor at Artmagazin (Hungary). Her PhD research focuses on New Sensuality and the Atmospheric in Exhibition-Making.
Andreia Santana (Lisbon, 1991) works between Vienna and New York. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College, CUNY, as a Fulbright/Carmona e Costa and Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Fellow. Her work has been exhibited at institutions such as the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art (Porto); Oakville Galleries (Canada); Secession (Vienna); CCB (Lisbon); MAAT (Lisbon); In Extenso (Clermont-Ferrand); Sans Titre (Paris); Wiener Art Foundation (Vienna); Chiado 8/Culturgest (Lisbon); UNA (Milan); Kunstraum niederösterreich (Vienna); Filomena Soares (Lisbon); Scherben (Berlin); Galeria Municipal do Porto, among others. Santana was part of international residencies such as Residency Unlimited, LMCC, and ISCP in New York and has been awarded prizes and fellowships, such as the MAK Schindler Scholarship, BMKÖS Bildende Kunst StadtStipendium, Hopper Prize, Cafe Royal Foundation, FLAD – Foundation for Luso American Development, NOVO BANCO, Ducato Prize, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, and was shortlisted for the EDP Foundation Prize.
This exhibition project was produced with the kind support of:
