In this interview, interdisciplinary artist Jota Mombaça discusses their solo exhibition THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY at KADIST San Francisco. The exhibition includes a new large-scale sculptural installation accompanied by sound and video works exploring water’s restless, elemental properties and “the radicality of sinking.” During the course of the exhibition, Mombaça installs these works in stages, activating them through conversation and performance, and expanding them with an artist publication of drawings and poetry, in a series of subversive actions that gesture toward the possibilities of a foreboding future.
Jota Mombaça was artist-in-resident at KADIST San Francisco from November 30, 2022, to December 18, 2023.
Directed/Camera by Bearfish Productions
Interview by Jo-ey Tang and Lauren Sorresso
Jota Mombaça: THE SINKING SHIP/PROSPERITY
October 27, 2022, to February 11, 2023
KADIST San Francisco