Joana Palma
ABOUT THE PRACTICE
Joana Palma works from a single investigation: the transformation of one form into infinite perceptual realities. In The Mothership series, a three-dimensional sculpture is filmed as if it were architecture. The geometry of its surface becomes abstract, split into dual large-scale projections moving through a mirrored room. Visitors are handed mechanical controls. They steer the projections, alter the space, and become co-authors of an environment that exists differently for every person who enters it.
This question, one origin and its infinite manifestations, runs through all of her practice. From early mirror installations exploring the animistic presence of objects to collaborative works examining the fractured psyche, the body in digital space, and speculative futures shaped by collective belief, each work proposes the same thing: that perception is not fixed, and that the viewer holds more agency over their reality than they have been told.