Diana Policarpo is a visual artist and composer with an MFA from Goldsmiths College, University of London. Recent exhibitions and performances include Galeria Municipal do Porto (2020); Kunsthall Trondheim (2020); Contemporary Art Museum of Elvas (2020); Whitechapel Gallery, London (2019); MAAT, Lisbon (2019); Galeria Francisco Fino, Lisbon (2018); Kunsthall Oslo (2018); LUX Moving Image, London (2017); and Kunstverein Leipzig (2017). In 2019, Policarpo was awarded the EDP Foundation New Artists Award.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
In the moving image work ‘Death Grip’ (2019), artist Diana Policarpo offers a sonic exploration of a caterpillar fungus species as it folds narratives of healing and economic progress.