Under pressure

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.