Hugo Canoilas

Galerie Martin Janda will be showing new works by Hugo Canoilas in his first solo exhibition at the gallery from 4th May to 26th June 2021.

The exhibition Buoyant comprises of a new group of paintings and glassworks, developed since 2020 specifically for this show. The universe of the exhibition is the deep sea, considered by the artist as a speculative field capable of absorbing projections of a non-colonised future. The deep sea provides us with a tangible experience of new forms of life, which we observe through the gathered data, specimens, and media collected by robots. Thus technology, biology, and art come together in an exercise, or attempt, to breach beauty with the purpose of creating greater empathy for all forms of life.

Hugo Canoilas, *1977 in Lisbon (PT), lives and works in Vienna (AT)