Portrait of Teresa Lanceta by Miguel Lorenzo.
Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to announce Teresa Lanceta’s inclusion in the fifth edition of Anozero’24 Bienal de Coimbra, entitled “The Phantom of Liberty.” The Biennial unfolds across the city of Coimbra from April 6 through June 30, 2024. Lanceta's work will be exhibited in the Monastery of Santa Clara-a-Nova and in the City Hall.
Curators Ángel Calvo Ulloa and Marta Mestre describe the thematic concerns of Anozero’24 as exploring “the idea of freedom and the strategies of contemporary art to challenge, displace, and inhabit it.” The title, The Phantom of Liberty, has an ambiguous and open meaning. If, on the one hand, it suggests the idea that liberty is a phantom, an inescapable and spectral presence, on the other hand, it also points to a postponed process, emphasizing the hallucinatory production of a desire. The play between desire and reality, which runs through the construction of liberty, is at a crossroads today, pointing in contradictory directions. Economic inequalities, the purposefulness of capital, the climate emergency and social fractures based on race, religion, gender, or sexual orientation expose the fragility of liberty as an expression of the Universal.
Since the 1970s, Teresa Lanceta’s textile practice has been defined by a reciprocal engagement of artistic traditions and sustained dialogues across geographies, cultures, and socioeconomic contexts. The patterns and compositions seen across her work are intrinsically founded upon the physical structure of the woven, sewn, and fiber form and the idea of technique as a universal code. Lanceta embraces the communicative potential of textile and its capacity to channel and transform global histories and knowledge systems.
To learn more about Anozero’24 Bienal de Coimbra, click here.