23 November 2018 \u2013 20 January 2019
\nSk\u00e5nes konstf\u00f6rening, Bragegatan 15, Malm\u00f6<\/p>\n
Vernissage\/Opening event Unboxing<\/em>: 23 November, 18.00 Prata<\/em>. A word that means \u201cspeak\u201d can also be translated as the word for \u201csilver\u201d as it exists both in the Swedish and Portuguese\u00a0language. How might these false friends, which share spelling but not meaning, speak to differences in languages that shape the human perception of the world alongside cultural contexts and traditions? Such linguistic (mis)translations are starting points in the exhibition PRATA PRATA \u2013 SPEAK SILVER<\/em> by the Swedish-Portuguese artist duo\u00a0LealVeileby, consisting of Ant\u00f3nio Leal (PT) and Jesper Veileby (SE). Their artistic process is dialogue-based and the cultural exchange they share serves as a foundation for their work, where they playfully explore how humans look at and make sense of the world.<\/p>\n The exhibition brings together a constellation of new and never before shown works that map the duo\u2019s own linguistic clash; the Swedish and Portuguese languages, spoken on opposite ends of Europe, come together to create a new syntax combining texts, videos, and objects. LealVeileby explore the mystical abilities of language to transmit thoughts and ideas, bringing together Fado songs, fables, and non-human communication into video works in which images and texts merge in an anthropomorphic game, exemplifying how easily humans project their own traits through language onto their surroundings. The exhibition features objects that were made through dialogue and in collaboration with Ant\u00f3nio Leal\u2019s father Ismael Leal (b. 1933), such as hand-carved representations of animals reanimating the vagabond nature of those featured in the videos. The dialogue also developed into a series of repaired household tools from Sweden, for which LealVeileby elaborately craft boxes to present them in \u2013 an act that performs reparation in the midst of a dominate throw-away society. Caught in a conceptual contradiction, the broken domestic objects are shipped from Sweden to Portugal to be repaired and returned with a new function. The artists\u2019 humorous approach to addressing issues of production, labour, and craft prompts viewers to challenge their position as consumers and to reconsider the value of art in terms of meaning and materiality.<\/p>\n As part of the exhibition, an artists\u2019 publication by LealVeileby will be released with texts and contributions from Elena Tzotzi, Kah Bee Chow, Janneke Schoene, Sixten Hatfield and Ismael Leal. The opening event will include the release of the publication and an unboxing <\/em>act\u00a0in which LealVeileby will make the repaired household tools come to new life. For the finissage on Sunday 20th January, they will hold the lecture Stone of Blue: Matter of Tomorrow<\/em>, an introduction to LealVeileby’s latest project.<\/p>\n LealVeileby is this year\u2019s recipient of the Sven and Ellida Hjort\u2019s Exhibition Grant. 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\nFinissage\/Lecture Stone of Blue: Matter of Tomorrow<\/em>, 20 January, 14.00<\/p>\n
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\nAnt\u00f3nio Leal<\/strong> and Jesper Veileby<\/strong> have both taken their master\u2019s studies at Malm\u00f6 Art Academy. The duo has had solo exhibitions at Espa\u00e7o Campanh\u00e3 (Porto), Konsthall K (Karlstad) and Gallery Pictura (Lund) and a number of group exhibitions in Sweden, Denmark, Portugal, Spain and Brazil. They are represented in the EDP Foundation \/ MAAT Museum Collection (Lisbon). In 2017, LealVeileby were honoured at the Fuso \u2013 Video Art Festival in Lisbon, and they have each received a one-year working grant from the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.<\/p>\n