Galerie Nosbaum & Reding

Galerie Nosbaum & Reding

4, rue Wiltheim L-2733 Luxembourg

Tél : (+352) 26 19 05 55 Ma - Sam: 11h00 - 18h00

http://www.nosbaumreding.lu

Isabelle Ferreira : O Salto


For her first exhibition in Luxembourg, Isabelle Ferreira presents “O salto” at the Nosbaum Reding gallery. In Portuguese, O salto means jump and designates, in everyday language, the jump across borders, which thousands of Portuguese tried at the risk of their lives in the 1960s to flee dictatorship, misery and colonial wars. Isabelle Ferreira is thus continuing her research initiated in 2021 on the repressed history of Portuguese illegal immigration. With modesty and sensitivity, the artist probes the grooves left by the disruptions caused by this great leap.
A recurring gesture in Isabelle Ferreira’s creative process, at the intersection of painting, sculpture and architecture, this disruption ventures for the first time into the realm of the photographic imagery. The artist’s carefully collected identity photos which she makes her own are transferred to plywood boards. With precise acts of subtraction, such as covering flat areas with paint or wool, the artist imbues anonymous faces with an ethereal quality, transforming them into iconic portraits. These portraits are matched by aerial views of the Pyrenees.
Sonia Recasens