SUFOCO [2021]
GALERIA CISTERNA [Lisbon, Portugal]
Text by João Macdonald
ANA VELEZ - JOANA GOMES - MARIA SASSETTI - XANA SOUSA
The work by these four artists from Atelier Contencioso [in existence since 2015] has emerged from the lockdown and is an engagement with the idea of the unheimlich, a proposal based on Sigmund Freud’s 1919 text [furthermore published towards the end of the pandemic of his day]: what is simultaneously not familiar or familiar, triggering our own sense of uneasiness. The setting for our discomfort is within our own home - the limit [in all senses of the word] of where we have tried to re-exist in recent times.
João Macdonald
