Works with video, photography, installation and painting.
His works are elaborated between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, with the use of a visual vocabulary that addresses singular aspects of identity and/or multi-personality. The thoughts, dreams and hopes of the ‘persona’ and where does the alter ego manifest itself. Self-explanatory the questions raised are often left unanswered.
His body of work point to the idea that one can’t easily conceive an own interpretation without being hindered by reality. The possible seems true but seems to exist with many deceptions and fictions. There’s an absolute proposition that lies of how ambiguous identity and reality are.
This thematically interrelated material of memory and respective projection is aesthetically resilient. Each work has it’s own firm uniqueness with a particular informal language where the notions of the media are stretched supported by a theoretical perspective. The plastic decisions are done via retakes and variations increasing the dynamic between audience and author, objectifying and investigating the duality that develops on each different interpretation.
This use of specific combinations and certain manipulations create different meanings and contexts directly responding to the surrounding environment and using experiences as a starting point, often these are framed instances that would go unnoticed in their original context. These experiences result in visual notes incorporating time as well as space – one illusory universe that slowly emerges from it.
Dreamlike images in which the possibility of the annulment of a fixed identity is the focal point where reflections, mirrors, turnings, spinning around and disequilibrium are used as an operational method.
His latest series of works look for sensation of numbness, vertigo and disorder as sources of pleasure. The game is established by the relationship created between visibility and invisibility. The foundation of the game is the separation of what is unseen. The unplanned reception of its rules, bring us back to experience a sensation of absence.
Solo exhibitions
2012
Spellbound - New Works by José Drummond. AFA. Beijing. China
2010
Fairy Tales - The Pretender, The Aesthetician, The Fighter. AFA. Macau
2009
The Idiot. St. Paul’s Fine Art - AFA. Macau
2008
The Storyteller. Creative Macau. Macau
2004
The Intruder. Casa Garden – Orient Foundation. Macau
2003
123KOPC. Taipa Amphitheatre. Macau
1998
Impressionist H. Óbudai Társaskör Gallery. Budapest. Hungary
1995
O e Se Da. Livraria Portuguesa Gallery. Macau
1994
We must not be afraid (indicium). Monumental Gallery. Lisbon. Portugal
Beat. Quarto de Fernando Pessoa. Lisbon. Portugal
Moss and Velvet. Orient Foundation. Macau
1993
Echo. Botanical Garden. Science University. Lisbon. Portugal
Forward. Boqueirão da Praia da Galé 5 (Monumental 2). Lisbon. Portugal
1992
Drawings and Paper (credit). Monumental Gallery. Lisbon. Portugal
Without Biting The Apple. Emmérico Nunes Cultural Centre. Sines. Portugal
1991
Hands (handing). Monumental Gallery. Lisbon. Portugal
1990
M+J. Monumental Gallery. Lisbon. Portugal
Interludio. Emmérico Nunes Cultural Centre. Sines. Portugal
1989
A-23. ESAA • Lisbon. Portugal
1987
Painting. ESAA. Lisbon. Portugal
Group exhibitions (Selection)
2012
Era of Fragments of Visual Synthesis – Curators: Feng Boyi, Joey Ho – The Performer, The
Storyteller. Old Court Building. Macau
The Script Road - The Ghost. Old Court Building. Macau
Macau Scenery - AFA 4th Anniversary Exhibition - The Aesthetician, The Gardener. AFA. Beijing. China
2011
Macau Scenery - AFA 4th Anniversary Exhibition - The Aesthetician, The Gardener. AFA. Macau
Recent Works - w/Edgar Massul & Álvaro Rosendo - The Ghost. Espaço Avenida. Lisbon. Portugal
Autumn Saloon - The Winker. Orient Foundation/AFA. Macau
ShContemporary 2011 - Shanghai Art Fair - The Winker, The Ghost. AFA booth. Shanghai. China
Imaginary Belongings - The Performer. Orient Museum. Lisbon. Portugal
2010
MIPAF 2010 - Macau International Performance Art Festival - The Puppeteer. Ox Warehouse. Macau
Jumping Frames - The Performer. Cineteatro. Macau - Dance Academy. Guangzhou. China -
Broadway Cinemateque. Hong Kong
Art Expo Malaysia 2010 - Kuala Lumpur Art Fair. - The Winker. AFA booth. Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia
Autumn Saloon - The Storyteller. Orient Foundation - AFA. Macau
Today Tomorrow. The Gardener. Creative Macau. Macau
ShContemporary 2010 - Shanghai Art Fair - The Aesthetician, The Fighter. AFA booth. Shanghai. China
Art Beijing 2010 - Beijing Art Fair - The Pretender. AFA booth. Beijing. China
The Butterfly Effect - Curator: Feng Boyi - The Pretender. He Xiangning Art Museum. Shenzhen. China
2009
S/low - The Dreamer. Xiaozhou, China
HEP - Human Emotion Project - The Narcissist & The Illusionist. AFA. Beijing. China -
Portuguese Bookshop Gallery. AFA. Macau - Velan Center For Contemporary Arts. Torino. Italy
- Valby Kulturhus. Copenhagen. Denmark - Formverk Gallery. Stockholm. Sweden - Malhoa
Museum. Caldas Da Rainha. Portugal - Club Brancaleone. Rome. Italy - La Sala. Cigunuela.
Spain - Guildford Lane Gallery. Melbourne. Australia
Art Beijing 2009 - Beijing Art Fair - The Idiot. AFA booth. Beijing. China
2008
The 23rd Asian International Art Exhibition - The Painter. Ucity Art Museum. Guangzhou. China
The 23rd Asian International Art Exhibition - The Painter. Bambu Gallery. Macau
ACAF NY 2008 - Asian Contemporary Art Fair - The Painter, The Dreamer. New York. USA
Macao Contemporary Art Exhibition - The Storyteller • AFA. Beijing. China
Art Beijing 2008 - Beijing Art Fair - The Storyteller. AFA booth. Beijing. China
Winds of Cools - The Storyteller. St. Paul’s Fine Art - AFA. Macau
Macau Video - The Skeptic. Ucity Art Museum. Guangzhou. China
Emulation & Truth - The Illusionist • Ucity Art Museum • Guangzhou, China
2007
Place - Act II - The Narcissist. Macao Museum of Art. Macau
2006
+853 - The Fugitive. Bloom. Macau
2005
Fast - Future Art, Science and Technology - The Painter. Daejeon. South Korea
Macao New Wave - The Painter. Macao Museum of Art. Macau
2004
Today and Tomorrow - The Secret Agent. Ox Warehouse. Macau
Community Fever - Walk this way. Ox Warehouse. Macau
1999
C-clone - In made. Portuguese Bookshop Gallery. Macau
Alter Ego - one artist from thailand and one artist from europe. Silpakorn University. Bangkok. Thailand
1998
Circuítos D’água. Patriacal de Lisboa. Lisbon. Portugal
Lolita-mei mei. World Trade Center. Macau
1997
Imagem Sem Imagem - Curator: Isabel Carlos. Museu De Évora. IAC. Portugal
1996
Bildloses Abbild - Curator: Isabel Carlos. Sparkasse. Gütersloh. Germany
ARCO 96. Monumental booth. Madrid. Spain
ARCO 96 (promo Art Fair main image commission) - Curator: João Fernandes. Madrid. Spain
1995
Peninsulares - Curator: João Fernandes. Fúcares Gallery. Madrid. Spain
ARCO 95. Monumental booth. Madrid. Spain
Art Fair. Monumental booth. Santiago De Compostela. Spain
Lisboa Fora de Horas. Private houses. Lisbon. Portugal
40° Salon D’Art Contemporain. Montrouge. France
1994
Nouages. Bastille. Paris. France
Qualquer semelhanca é inevitável-Ready Mades. Loja Da Atalaia. Lisbon. Portugal
Var. E.N. 1. Abandoned house. Castelo Branco. Portugal
1993
Air. Boqueirão da Praia da Galé 5 (Monumental 2). Lisbon. Portugal
1992
Bienal dos Jovens Criadores da Europa Mediterrânea. Valencia. Spain
Brat-Art Attack. Castel Ruins. Bratislava. Slovakia
Entrez Dans la Legende. Aqua-boulevard. Paris. France
Curator (Selection)
2012
The Script Road. Old Court Building. Macau
2011
VAFA II - Video Art For All II. Orient Foundation/AFA. Macau
Affairs to Remember - Works by James Chu. AFA. Beijing. China
9/11 +10. Portuguese Bookshop Gallery. Macau
Imaginary Belongings - 20 Macau Contemporary Artists. Orient Museum. Lisbon. Portugal
Immortality - Works by Carol Kwok. AFA. Macau
2010
VAFA - Video Art For All. Orient Foundation/AFA. Macau
New City - Works by Rui Calçada Bastos. AFA. Macau
Artists Cinema (selection for 8 screens). Art Beijing - Beijing Art Fair. Beijing .China
HEP - Human Emotion Project. AFA. Beijing. China
2009
HEP - Human Emotion Project. Portuguese Bookshop Gallery/AFA. Macau
Writer
2011
Arte Nova China - First book in Portuguese language about Contemporary Chinese Art. Livros DoMeio.Macau
