Progressive Hopscotch

CURATORIAL THEME

This series explores the power of the mundane to both settle and unsettle our human state. While an expected scene can suggest normality, there is a sense of flatness, even discomfort, in the ordinary. Across João Cardoso´s latest series of paintings he explores how far he can push the boundaries of the mundane by constructing common scenes in a imagined future.

A sense of surveillance is emphasised through the consistent depiction of CCTV across the series. This intends to position the viewer as the voyeur, who uncomfortably confronts humanity’s seemingly supposed outcome.

On another painting of the series “Lonely hopscotch”, and with a unique fashion sense, a timeless creature stands in a posture suggesting some sort of fatigue. Looking toward its own shadow that forms an hopscotch adds a layer of thought. Each section of the Hopscotch can be taken like different options that we can take within our consciousness.

On “Progressive hopscotch” the creature takes a leap of faith and steps on one of the numbered shapes of the hopscotch.