{"id":788,"date":"2020-05-04T23:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T23:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/expo.calarts.edu\/2020\/?page_id=788"},"modified":"2020-05-14T05:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T05:42:36","slug":"joana-p-cardozo","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/expo.calarts.edu\/2020\/joana-p-cardozo\/","title":{"rendered":"Joana P. Cardozo"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Joana P. Cardozo is a Brazilian visual artist based in Los Angeles and Sao Paulo. Her photographs create unconventional portraiture by examining the relationship amongst domestic spaces, their inhabitants and their objects. Her installations discuss the futility of human attachments in an impermanent world.<\/h3>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Naked Hours<\/h3>\n
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For 100 hours, I cut 2 x 2 inches black paper with scissors and covered the L-Shape Gallery walls at the California Institute of the Arts. I did not speak. I did not use a cell phone or other electronics. I ate, rested, wrote, and meditated as necessary. I left the gallery space to use the restroom. I used clear tape, double-sided tape, museum putty, painter\u2019s tape, and gaffer tape. The Naked Hours turned out to be much more than a quest for personal transformation, or the passage of time and the impermanence of this world. It became to be about the making of art and the destroying of art. The everyday life and its unnoticeable tasks. The cycle of life, being born, growing, aging, dying. The stillness and movement. The opposites, contrasts, spaces, blank spaces. It became to be about the mistakes. The anger. The meditation and the breath. The Naked Hours became to be about personal and global transformations. A virus spreading in the world.<\/p>\n