Ana+Betânia
Venus, 2019
Stoneware, engobes, glazed, nacre lustrine
35x28x25 cm
Venus, 2019
Stoneware, engobes, glazed, nacre lustrine
35x28x25 cm
Venus, 2019
Stoneware, engobes, glazed, nacre lustrine
35x28x25 cm
Reminiscence, 2019
Stoneware, porcelain, glazed, ceramic pigments, gold lustrin.
52x10x05 cm
Detail of Reminiscence, 2019
Stoneware, porcelain, glazed, ceramic pigments, gold lustrin.
52x10x05 cm
Detail of Reminiscence, 2019
Stoneware, porcelain, glazed, ceramic pigments, gold lustrin.
52x10x05 cm
Tree of life, 2018
Stoneware, red stoneware, oxides, underglaze, glaze
65 x 40 x 15 cm
Detail of Tree of life, 2018
Stoneware, red stoneware, oxides, underglaze, glaze
65 x 40 x 15 cm
Detail of Tree of life, 2018
Stoneware, red stoneware, oxides, underglaze, glaze
65 x 40 x 15 cm
Emyreal, 2019 | Ana+Betânia
Stoneware, black stoneware, glazed, ceramics pigments, gold lustrine
53x31x16 cm
Emyreal, 2019 | Ana+Betânia
Stoneware, black stoneware, glazed, ceramics pigments, gold lustrine
53x31x16 cm
Carnivore, 2017
Clay, stains, golden luster
23 x 19 x 12 cm
Detail of Carnivore, 2017
Clay, stains, golden luster
23 x 19 x 12 cm
Until the end of love, 2017
Stoneware, black stoneware, underglaze, oxides, golden luster
46 x 20 x 17 cm
Detail of Until the end of love, 2017
Stoneware, black stoneware, underglaze, oxides, golden luster
46 x 20 x 17 cm
Detail of Until the end of love, 2017
Stoneware, black stoneware, underglaze, oxides, golden luster
46 x 20 x 17 cm
Genesis, 2018
Stoneware, porcelain, terra sigillata, underglaze, oxides, glaze
178 x 58 x 30 cm
Genesis, 2018
Stoneware, porcelain, terra sigillata, underglaze, oxides, glaze
178 x 58 x 30 cm
Dogwoman, 2017
Black stoneware, glaze, gold luster
32 x 23 x 25 cm
Dogwoman, 2017
Black stoneware, glaze, gold luster
32 x 23 x 25 cm
Big Bang, 2017
Clay, stains, glaze
33 x 32 x 12 cm
Ana + Betânia are Ana Cruz and Maria de Betânia (b. 1983).
Ana and Betânia started working together on sculptural ceramics back in 2012, in an academic research program on ceramics in the Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon.
They are now 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 way far from traditional.
Conceptually, an analysis about the feminine is proposed. Not “The Feminine” as a solemn, philosophical idea, but the time-permeable feminine being, visible through the multiple and complex mutations that women suffer involuntary throughout their existential march.
The duo appropriates a surreal, humorous language, deconstructing the human body (both male and female), so to build visual metaphors that appeal both to tenderness and delicacy… in a perverted, twisted way.
Playful and brutal at the same time.