Ana Cardoso
Born in Lisbon, Portugal, 1978 / Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Ana Cardoso plays with the dual presence of paintings as objects and signs to create an architectural space in which literally free-floating references collide. Themes of the paintings include translucent fabric with different warp and weft, 1970s social theory book covers, and voracious pop cultural and art historical quotations including Fragonard,s -The Swing-. Michel Majerus, Heimo Zobernig, and Cosima von Bonin might be artists whose approaches to the legacy of painting make them relevant to Cardoso,s approach to the problem of making art, which Cardoso suggests is a kind of performance.


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