Cuddly Nemesis

The imaginary of the Luísa Mota (Porto, 1984, lives in London) is articulated through a crossingbetween extreme rurality, exotic mythologies and the absurd visions of outer space films from the midtwentieth century. The performative, photographic and video works produced by the artist put in action an unique and personal vocabulary that is certainly hermetic and difficult to grasp, but whose radical idiosyncrasymakes of Luísa Mota one the most original artists of her generation. Her works are populated byapparitions, of animated and inanimated beings, often humanoids or human-like figures andpresences, who find different modes of relating to the space, the objects and the individuals around them.