The Phair 2023 – 4/7 May 2023

Noé Sendas, Brussels, 1972 lives and works in Madrid and in Berlin.
Sendas’s double interest in the printed and the moving image leads him to choose photography and video as critical media for building and documenting a journey that also incorporates drawing, collage, sculpture and installation. By manipulating the image, Noé Sendas questions notions of identity and authorship, attributing other meanings to pre-existing works.
In turning to photography as a field for experimenting with the metamorphoses of images, the artist recovers surrealist techniques (collage, superimposition) and updates them with digital technologies, allowing some of their aspects to be removed and remade. On the other hand, he manipulates the printing method as if he were producing photographs from that era, raising doubts about time and authorship, a strategy especially visible in the series Crystal Girls (since 2009). By transforming collected and serialised images, Noé Sendas creates galleries of ambiguous portraits that can be read as reproductions of works of art from museums, self- portraits of the artist or reflections of the spectator.
Sendas studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA; Royal College of Arts, London; Arco and Atelier Livre, Lisbon. He has attended residencies at the: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Casa Velazquez, Madrid; Cite des Arts, Paris; Peggy Guggenheim, Venice and Atelier Real Lisboa. He has exhibited works in Yerba Buena for the Arts, USA; Kunsthalle Bonn, Germany; Akademie der Kunst, Berlin; Le Plateau, Paris; MEAC/ MUSAC/ Botin Foundation/ Foundation IC and Casa America in Spain; In Portuguese Museums and Institutions such as: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Museum Berardo, Museu Bordalo Pinheiro e Museu da Cidade em Lisboa; Culturgest, Porto; CAVE, Coimbra; Museum de Tavira, Algarve.