BIO + CV
Image credits : Adama Jalloh
SANDRA POULSON
I am an Angolan interdisciplinary artist.
I
grew up in Luanda-Angola and moved to Lisbon in 2013 to study Fashion Design at
Faculdade de Arquitectura, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa.Relocated
to London in 2014 where studied at London College of Fashion and completed a BA
Fashion Print at Central Saint Martins.
My work discusses the political,
cultural and socio-economic landscape of Angola as a case study to analyse the
relationship between History, oral tradition and global
political structures towards the understanding of ‘near-south’appropriate (and often in place) approaches.
Through auto-ethnographic and archaeological
approaches, my practice continually operates as a space for questioning and
unravelling ‘networks of existence’ that understand the dynamics of the
‘uninhabitable as a methodology’.
My practice utilizes family andsocietal passed down knowledge to dismantle contemporary fluxes
of reality in Angola through semiotic studies of ordinary (cultural)
objects such as household items as actors in political and cultural ongoing
transformations. Which inherently draws the questions posed by the work to
the task of decoloniality.
Among other mediums, my work utilises fabric,
concrete, wood, film, and hyper-documentation, looking at ‘things in close
proximity with the body’ : the city, dust, beer, garments etc.
Obrigada,
Sandra Poulson
CURRENT SOLO EXHIBITION(S)
05/2022 - 30/06/2022 ECONOMY OF THE DUST
Solo show at V.O. Curations following a 4 month residency at V.O. Curations in London.
RESIDENCIES
01/2022 - 04/2022 Residency at V.O. Curations - Culminated in the production of Economy of the Dust, solo 2022.
London
01/2022 - 05/2022 Digital Fellowship with Bloomberg New Contemporaries
Towards the production of a new solo project.
London
ART FAIRS
09/2021 Liste Art Fair Basel, Switzerland
Represented by JAHMEK Art, in display: ‘in Halo we Trust’, 2021
07/2021 ARCO Madrid, Spain
Solo Booth - Represented by JAHMEK Art
Installation - ‘Hope as a praxis’, 2021
11/2020 FNB Art Joburg
Represented by JAHMEK Art, in display: An Angolan Archive
FILM SCREENINGS
04/2021 - 06/2021 Boda Boda Lounge at Guggenheim
Museum
Loop installation of ‘The Ladder’, 2020 Film
As part of an
invitation of Christian Nyampeta to
selected films of
Boda Boda Lounge 2020
New York
04/2021 - 06/2021 SALTS X Boda Boda Lounge
Open-air screening, and loop installation of ‘The Ladder’
2020 Film
Basel
11/2020 Boda Boda Lounge
Film Festival - 22 Venues across Africa Screening of ‘The Ladder’ , 2020 Film
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
12/2021 - 02/2022 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
South London Gallery. London
09/2021 - 11/2021 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2021
Firstsite, Colchester
09/2021 - 10/2021 NOVA X Exhibition
Creative careers catalysed by Central Saint Martins and MullenLowe Group Lethaby Gallery, London
11/2020 Abuja Art Week
‘Through Our Eyes’- Virtual Exhibition
‘Halo Trust Waist Coat’ Digital archival work - An Angolan Archive
‘Halo Trust Waist Coat’ Digital archival work - An Angolan Archive