Joana Teixeira is an artist based in Lisbon. After studying painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon, she has worked for several years as a graphic artist for animated films. During this period, she continued to develop her painting in her home studio.
Her painting practice centers around establishing a bridge between two dissonant stages of her creative process: an intuitive first moment that is more experimental, with an inherent enthusiasm for the plasticity of the materials and the dramaturgy of the colors; and a second moment of reinterpretation, characterized by the destruction and reassembly of cut up and patched together layers.
These reincarnated images look to implicate the contradictions and nuance of the self in constant adaptation, seeking to uncover new ways of being and interacting with the world, as a form of resistance against the feeling of personal and societal powerlessness.