Timor-Leste 2024
Maria Madeira site-specific installation made with the use of local materials such as traditional textile, betelnut, earth and pigments.
Title: Kiss and Don’t Tell
Commissioner: Jorge Soares Cristovão
Secretary of State for Arts and Culture of the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste
Curator: Natalie King
Artist: Maria Madeira
Maria Madeira is one of Timor-Leste’s most significant contemporary visual artists working internationally, yet her practice is deeply embedded in local traditions, concerns and histories. The artist presents at the 60th Venice Biennale “Kiss and Don’t Tell,” a site-specific installation made with the use of local materials such as traditional textile, betelnut, earth and pigments. Madeira performative installation draws on the collective memories of her foremothers, she imbues her work with her lived experience of displacement, having grown up in a refugee camp in Portugal with her mother.
OPENING TIMES:
Apr 20 – Oct 1 Mon – Sun, 11am – 7pm
Oct 1 – Nov 24 Mon – Sun, 10am – 6pm
ADDRESS
Spazio Rava San Polo 1100
