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Ana + Betânia

Ana + Betânia are Ana Cruz (b. 1983) and Maria de Betânia (b. 1983). They started working together in sculptural ceramics in 2012, in the scope of an academic research programme on ceramics at Lisbon’s Faculty of Fine Arts. They are currently based in Caldas da Rainha, a city known for its ceramics production both in industry and traditional handcraft. Their body of work is often influenced by Portuguese popular ceramics, but the concepts and subjects they bring up are far from traditional. The duo appropriates a surreal, humorous language, deconstructing the human body (both male and female) in order to build visual metaphors that appeal both to tenderness and delicateness… in a perverse, twisted way; playful and brutal at the same time.

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