‘Shell Game’
'Shell Game' is an exhibition with two artists that brings together for the first time the works of Andreia Santana (Lisbon, 1991) and Anna-Sophie Berger (Vienna, 1989) at the Filomena Soares Gallery in Lisbon.
Based on an invitation between artists, the exhibition reveals an unpredictable degree of intimacy through the exchange of ideas and the fruitful dialogue between their practices.
Shell Game is conceived from existing works of art that were carefully chosen and placed in the exhibition space, allowing for a multiplicity of new possibilities from a sometimes subtle or tense relationship between both artistic practices.
Andreia Santana’s ethereal and intangible works from the Soul Houses series take on a whole new dimension when placed in relation to Anna-Sophie Berger’s haunting and furtive portraits. The capture of the invisible and other life forms in Santana’s works is somewhat interrupted by Berger’s exploration of portraiture. Due to the juxtaposition of both practices, these photographs, which can be interpreted in multiple ways, allow for the inherent expression of the sculptures’ body form as a receptacle ready to receive new living forms in an organic and unexpected way.