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Artist Rita GT premieres 'video-performance' "Unearthing" dedicated to migrant women

The artist Rita GT will present, March 8, 'online', the unpublished video-performance "Unearthing", dedicated to the stories of women who had to emigrate during the colonial period, as part of a program of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

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The new work was commissioned by the British museum Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP), and will be presented at 6pm, on International Women's Day, on the Youtube platform, as part of a program of outdoor sculpture dedicated to women artists, according to the organization.

"Unearthing" emerged from an artistic residency that Rita GT held at YSP, in 2018, and materialized in a vocal and movement 'performance', which counts with the participation of performers of the traditional group Cantadeiras do Vale do Neiva and the dancers Piny and Isa Santos, having as a backdrop the space of the old Crockery Factory of Viana do Castelo, the city where the artist currently lives and works.

In this new work, Rita GT continues her research on post-colonial histories, the place of women in societies and their connection to the earth, particularly through clay and ceramics.

The choral element of the performance "evokes traditional songs and chants that have traveled in women's voices, and will be sung in Portuguese, without subtitles, preserving the linguistic diversity and the provincialisms present in the lyrics and interpretation," indicates a text about the performance.

The project "Unearthing" is supported by Câmara Municipal de Viana do Castelo and Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian and commissioned by YSP as part of the 2021 program dedicated to women artists, which involves the participation of Joana Vasconcelos, Rachel Kneebone, Annie Morris and the presentation of the group exhibition "Breaking the Mold: Sculpture by Women since 1945", curated by the Arts Council Collection.

Born in Porto, in 1980, Rita GT has a degree in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts of that city, and currently lives and works between Portugal and Angola.

Co-founder of the e.studio collective in Luanda, Rita GT has been reflecting on the themes of colonial identity and memory, with a focus on gender and human rights, and in her works she works mainly with ceramics, installation, performance, video and photography, crossing multiple media and supports.

She was commissioner of the Angola Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2015, and in 2017 was part of the annual exhibition at the Royal Academy in London.

She was also one of the non-African artists invited to participate in the first Lagos Biennale in Nigeria.

In 2015, she presented a performance entitled "We Shall Overcome!", which addresses social, economic and political injustices, at the National Museum of Contemporary Art - Museu do Chiado (MNAC) in Lisbon.

YSP is located on an estate with 18th century gardens and is one of Europe's largest outdoor exhibition spaces for modern and contemporary sculpture, having shown works by artists such as Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Damien Hirst, Phyllida Barlow, Huma Bhabha, Gavin Turk and Ai Weiwei. It normally receives about 500,000 visitors a year.

Since March 2020, the park is presenting a retrospective exhibition of the work of artist Joana Vasconcelos, including "Pop Galo" (2016), a giant Barcelos Rooster in tile and LED lights, and "Solitaire" (2017), produced for an exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and consisting of a ring-shaped sculpture made with car rims and whiskey glasses, in an allusion to the stereotypical symbols of female and male desire, diamonds and luxury cars.

Due to the closure to the public by the confinement in force in England, the exhibition entitled "Beyond" - the largest Vasconcelos exhibition in the UK to date, bringing together some 30 works from the last 20 years - has been extended by a year, until January 9, 2022.

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