João Galante (1968.Luanda, Angola) works on performance art, dance, installation, photography, sound and video art.
Works mainly with Ana Borralho. They have been working together on projects of their own since 2002. They met each other while they studied visual arts at AR.CO (Lisbon).
Borralho & Galante's frequent adressed themes include:
body / mind, outside / inside, emotion / feeling, me / others, private / public, social / politics, gender / sexual ambiguity, erotic imaginary, self-portrait.
Since 2004 their work has been shown on international festivals in Portugal, France, Spain, Switzerland, Scotland, Brazil, United Arab Emirates, Japan, Italy, England, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Hungary, Netherlands, Canada , Iceland, Austria, Greece and Slovenia.
Borralho and Galante are co-founders of the non-musicians band Jimmie Durham and the casaBranca cultural association. They are also artistic directors/curators of the arts festival Verão Azul (Lagos/Portugal).
