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EMA GASPAR

PLEASE, SLEEP

First Edition

Publ. by Goswell Road, 2024

Hardcover (21cm x 29.7cm)

48 Pages

75 copies

Price: 25 € (40 € with shipping) 

For Gaspar's first solo exhibition in France, 'Please, Sleep', we publish a limited A4 hardcover book collecting drawings and thoughts for the show, previous works, and photographs by Gaspar taken on a Nintendo DS in Japan that informed her research.

“In my waking life, each moment presents an opportunity for exposure, for my innermost thoughts and creations to be judged, dissected, and exploited. Here, the final moment before sleep overtakes me, I manifest that threshold, the moment I retreat inward and find solace in my interior world. Here, I scatter myself across media, each piece a fragment of my endeavour to create a sanctuary amidst confusion and trauma, a space where I can rest and reject—if only briefly—a world that constantly demands my compliance.” Gaspar, November, 2024

This exhibition and publication were made possible with the support of the ‘Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Delegation in France’, who co-financed it as part of the EXPOSITIONS GULBENKIAN (edition #5) programme to support Portuguese art in French art institutions and spaces.

Bio: Ema Gaspar (b.1993) is a visual artist from Almada, Portugal, who lives and works between Tokyo (JP) and Lisbon (PT). Drawing from her lived experiences, she conjures an ‘atmosphere of memory’, beginning with a shape or object, assigning it a personality, and inventing its body.