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João Motta Guedes
Artist from Portugal
Finalist SAF art prize.
João Motta Guedes (1995). He began his academic career with a degree in Law at the University of Lisbon (PT), participated in the Pontifical Catholic University exchange program in Rio de Janeiro (BR), and completed an International and European Master's Degree in Law at the NOVA University of Law in Lisbon (PT), having participated as a researcher in various academic publications and conferences. In 2019, he decided to dedicate himself to his artistic thinking and practice, which have always gone hand in hand through poetry over the years, finishing his Master's Degree in Painting at the University of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (PT).
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Bringing the flowers to you
Sculpture by João Motta Guedes
35 x 80 cm • Bronze
Location:
Prior Velho, Portugal
João Motta Guedes’s artistic practice is rooted in poetry as a force to question, dream, and shape the way to follow. His work engages in philosophical and political dialogues investigating how emotions such as freedom, vulnerability, love, and violence manifest as symptoms of the human condition. The presented sculpture exists in the paradox of weight and lightness. Its title evokes the gesture of carrying flowers for someone, yet the work mirrors the emotional baggage a person carries within them. The contrast between the lightness of the flowers and the weight of the backpack speaks to the tension between love and burden and the way we live.
Motta Guedes was shortlisted for The Millenium BCP Foundation’s Young Art Award in 2023. He recently exhibited in Vulnerable Objectivities in a Garden of Delights and Horrors, The Loft, Servais Family Collection, Brussels, (2025); No feeling is final, Galeria da Boavista, Lisbon, (2024); How to live?, Galeria NAVE, Lisbon (2023), and You came to start the revolution, Galeria Zé dos Bois, Lisbon, (2023).
Location:
Prior Velho, Portugal
About the artist
João Motta Guedes
Artist from Portugal
Finalist SAF art prize.
João Motta Guedes (1995). He began his academic career with a degree in Law at the University of Lisbon (PT), participated in the Pontifical Catholic University exchange program in Rio de Janeiro (BR), and completed an International and European Master's Degree in Law at the NOVA University of Law in Lisbon (PT), having participated as a researcher in various academic publications and conferences. In 2019, he decided to dedicate himself to his artistic thinking and practice, which have always gone hand in hand through poetry over the years, finishing his Master's Degree in Painting at the University of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon (PT).
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