From the Series ‘A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lies’ by Joana Duarte
About this activity.
From November 1st to 30th, 2025, Joana Duarte, an artist with roots in Portugal, will exhibit an inkjet print on Fine Art paper from 2023 at the window gallery ‘De Prachtvink’ at the Vinkhuizen shopping center, Platinalaan 505a, 9743 GZ Groningen.
The inkjet print measures 15 x 20 cm and is displayed in a 30 x 40 cm frame with a passe partout. It is the first in a series of five. The print is a part of the series ‘A Picture is Worth a Thousand Lies’. In this series (since 2021), Joana Duarte explores the tension between memory and photographic images. The exhibited print has as a starting point a black and white photograph of the artist as a child. The photo was taken in a family context that promised affection but often concealed absence and violence. Duarte intervenes in the image. Using chemical processes, she traces childhood drawings directly onto the photograph. These gestures are both acts of reclamation and imagination: reclaiming authorship of an image that once formed Duarte's memory, while adding new traces of personal experience. The chemical processes also introduce unpredictability, allowing the photograph to change over time.
Joana Duarte (born 1999, Portugal) is a visual artist based in Groningen. She is enrolled in a master’s program in painting at the Frank Mohr Institute. She received her bachelor's degree in painting from the University of Lisbon. She has exhibited in Portugal and internationally, including in Lisbon, Tokyo, and various Portuguese biennales. She has received several awards, including the Millennium BCP Young Art Prize (2023). Her work, which primarily explores memories, family archives, and the fragility of photographic images, is included in public and private collections in Portugal. The exhibition at De Prachtvink is her debut in the Netherlands.
The window gallery is an exhibition space that can only be viewed from the outside, but it is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The gallery is illuminated until 11:00 PM.
Each month, a new artwork by a different artist is exhibited.
Raamgalerie De Prachtvink.
Raamgalerie De Prachtvink is een 24-uurs galerie aan Platinalaan 505a bij Winkelcentrum Vinkhuizen. De galerie heeft als specialiteit internationale mail art.
Location.
Raamgalerie De Prachtvink
Platinalaan 505
9743GZ Groningen
tel 050-2302991
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