João Dias
Portugal
João Dias (Lisbon, 1983) is a visual artist who focuses on developing visual languages that explore the relationships between sculpture, architecture and, in particular, archaeology. To this end, he uses thinking strategies derived from painting and drawing to explore contemporary industrial media and materials, reflecting on the limits of plastic language and tradition.
His works seek to create elements that in some way represent the time in which they are made, becoming potential artefacts - products or by-products - of their own time (albeit without identifiable temporality). In the case of works for public spaces, the intention is to interact with the artefact in a site-specific dynamic; in the case of small procedural artefacts, on the other hand, the aspect of ownership and appropriation of the object emerges, presenting narratives that are only partially decoded. His work has been presented internationally in cities such as Munich, Berlin, Gdansk, Barcelona, Murcia, London, Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. He was awarded the INOV-Art grant for the city of Berlin, where he lived between 2008 and 2012. His work can be found in the art collections of the PLMJ Foundation, the Edge Arts Collection and the Carpe Diem Multiples Collection.
His works seek to create elements that in some way represent the time in which they are made, becoming potential artefacts - products or by-products - of their own time (albeit without identifiable temporality). In the case of works for public spaces, the intention is to interact with the artefact in a site-specific dynamic; in the case of small procedural artefacts, on the other hand, the aspect of ownership and appropriation of the object emerges, presenting narratives that are only partially decoded. His work has been presented internationally in cities such as Munich, Berlin, Gdansk, Barcelona, Murcia, London, Paris, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. He was awarded the INOV-Art grant for the city of Berlin, where he lived between 2008 and 2012. His work can be found in the art collections of the PLMJ Foundation, the Edge Arts Collection and the Carpe Diem Multiples Collection.
