Joana Vasconcelos: I'm Your Mirror
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
29/06/2018 > 11/11/2018
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Between June and November 2018, the Guggenheim Bilbao presented the first solo exhibition by a Portuguese artist at the museum and the first anthological dedicated to Joana Vasconcelos in Spain. With a total number of 649,082 visitors, it continues to be the third most viewed in the museum's history and has been voted fourth best that year at the top 10 by The Art Newspaper. 

Curated by Petra Joos and Enrique Juncosa, the exhibition brought together around 30 works and a site-specific installation for the museum's central atrium, the Egeria valkyrie (in honour of the first female traveller from that region) specially designed to dialogue with the architecture of Frank Ghery. 

The title for the exhibition came from the song I’m Your Mirror (composed by Lou Reed, performed by Velvet Underground and singer Nico), as the visual artist reflected upon the role of representing society attributed to the creators of each historical time.

Considered one of the most significant artists of the last decade, Joana Vasconcelos’s open-ended works reflect her direct, humorous vision of the world.
Petra Joos
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