Joana Escoval
Wordless and Earthen
Wordless and Earthen, exhibition view at Bombon projects, 2022.
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Wordless and Earthen, exhibition view at Bombon projects, 2022.
Wordless and Earthen, exhibition view at Bombon projects, 2022.
Wordless and Earthen, exhibition view at Bombon projects, 2022.
Bodies rest. It descends and combines with water, Joana Escoval, 2022, earth, water, fire, air, 168 x 20 cm.
It arises not from any cause but from the cooperation of many (Earth), Joana Escoval, 2022, earth, water, fire, air, 125 x 43.5 x 37.5 cm.
I am molten matter returned from the core of the earth to tell you interior things, Joana Escoval, 2022, Brass, bronze, volcanic rock, earth and leaving organisms, air, 325 x 198 x 130 cm
Expanding into her heart and viceversa, Joana Escoval, 2022, gold, glass, 150 x 25 x 8 cm.
Expanding into her heart and viceversa (detail), Joana Escoval, 2022, gold, glass, 150 x 25 x 8 cm.
Ash and fire were mixing in midair with the rain, Joana Escoval, 2022, earth, water, fire, air, 120 x 38 x 29 cm.
According to its own hopes, it grows, Joana Escoval, 2022, fusion of metals (brass), sulfur, silver, air, 241 x 228 x 113 cm.
Flowers powder the air around and settle on our arms, eyes and hair, Joana Escoval, 2022, mix of metals, air, 89 x 170 x 115 cm
North
The allies of sleep had been called upon, the storm was so strong that no one would go to school the
following morning.
Friendly rivers started streaming underground. Singing lullabies underneath the earth.
Everyone was dreaming of capillary sea water seeping out from their skin pores. Collective visions reshaping
their homes, opening holes.
No walls, however, were more sacred than rain water. Heavy rains were considered living beings, they moved
freely without constraints.
Each drop still holds the power of uniting with the next and, once combined, becomes a liquid mother that
carries the nurturing information needed by her children.
Washing away trauma and cleaning distorted memories, feeding every existing pore of the earth. On nights
like these, we grew.
South
Once more the harvest had finished before my arrival. Even though every right moment had been secreted
away, I continued hoping to be part of it.
â our mother told me
be patient.
The dry brown mountain has a strong solar appetite and, thus, can never be left unprotected if it is to heal.
Our grandparents were educated to stop feeding the earth. Now, naked and unnourished, erosion has spread
bringing thirst.
Everyone knows that the dynamic of the moon is here to cooperate.
But theyâve forgotten how.
And as I woke,
more pressure points were calling for touch
harmonizing
the
Qi.
Our brown wet hands would also embrace the motion of the wheel this Spring.
So, very soon, warm air currents would accelerate time and forms.
Overturning our touch.
We knew then that evaporation was rhythm and
revolution
our daily medicine
with a romantic twist.
Joana Escoval