SOUTHFIRST
60 N6th
Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 www.southfirst.org
ANA CARDOSO
7 November
– 14 December, 2008
SOUTHFIRST gallery is proud to present SPACE STUDY, the
first New York solo show of Portugese artist Ana Cardoso. The exhibition
consists of nine large-scale paintings and a number of smaller interventions
which assemble to create an installation that maps the gallery space through
two- and three-dimensional signs and displacements. The exhibition will be on
view from November 7 – December 14, 2008.
SPACE STUDY began as an animated video ÒsketchÓ of
SOUTHFIRST gallery and the plan for a black-on-black invitation card. In her
show, Cardoso plays with the dual presence of paintings as objects and signs to
create an architectural space in which literally free-floating references
collide. Themes of the paintings include translucent fabric with different warp
and weft, 1970s social theory book covers, and voracious pop cultural and art
historical quotations including FragonardÕs ÒThe Swing.Ó Michel Majerus, Heimo
Zobernig, and Cosima von Bonin might be artists whose approaches to the legacy
of painting make them relevant to CardosoÕs approach to the problem of making
art, which Cardoso suggests is a kind of performance.
Ana Cardoso received an MFA from Hunter College in 2006. She
has shown most recently with E-Flux Video Rental at the Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation, Lisbon, and at VPF Gallery, Lisbon, and in St. Louis, Missouri as a
part of Cinema Zero. She lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Lisbon.
SOUTHFIRST is located on 60 N6th Street in Williamsburg,
Brooklyn. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-6 PM and by
appointment. Subway: L train to Bedford Avenue. For more information, please contact the gallery at 718 599
4884 or info@southfirst.org.