The work of José Carlos Teixeira (Porto, 1977) is, in terms of both form and content, largely connected to the most pressing current issues, as three of his latest works, Touch I & II (2003), It’s OK (united) #1 #2 #3 – three steps to a (r)evolution (2004-06), and 38 minutes of anthropology (strangers to ourselves) (2005), clearly attest. These three devices combine performance, video and installation, in order to address, in one way or another, such issues and concepts as otherness or displacement, or the notions of limit and foreignness.

I come from a searching for a place in the world. From the possibility of finding it or questioning its own existence. From the nomadic nature of being, the itinerancy, the refusal of a home or a studio, the inability of closing myself in them. 


I come from a crossing of disciplines and an expanded notion of art: one that merges multiple areas. From the belief that art redefines itself at each given moment; it awakes, confronts and communicates. From the intersection of the personal with the political, the emotional with the social, the ethical with the aesthetic.