Introducing, for the true artlover, an authentic art souvenir for the sojourns!

Feast your eyes on Rothko in a Jar: a pickled panorama for your perceptual pleasure.
A must-have for your culinary corner, your sacred shelf, your kitchen’s kitschiest curiosity cabinet.
João Maria Gusmão has conjured not one but twenty of these uncanny conserves for this special gallery edition.

Behold your own affordable color field relic—true yet teasingly fake, eternally embalmed in the artistic brine of analogue photography.

Brewed in the artist’s chemical cauldron and darkroom dungeon, this is no mere replica—it’s a photochemical RA4 reversal marvel, an exquisite artifact of instant film photography: bottled brushstrokes on light-sensitive paper, a mummified masterpiece preserved for the ages.

This is the real-ish deal: a shimmering shrine to silence, a devotional jar of distilled contemplation—an art fact truly worthy of the Latvian luminary of lamentation.

It murmurs of stillness, spiritual hush, and mystic melancholia—art you can own, hold, and honor.
Buy now—or forever forgo this fabulous folly.

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Rally all internauts!

Sies + Höke has the pleasure of gracing you with a timely selection of annotated vignettes from the work of João Maria Gusmão—a peripatetic and tragicomic artist of Portuguese origin, born in Lisbon in the year MCMLXXIX.

Flatland—its title borrowed from Edwin Abbott’s speculative novel—brings together a
compelling selection of Gusmão’s most urgent recent works, unearthed
from his studio, alongside his latest major project, Animal Farm, previously exhibited at 99CANAL in New York and Galeria Zé dos Bois in Lisbon. Rooted in the long-standing tradition of interrogating and critically reframing the symbolic and material power of 'the vile metal,' this body of work engages in a hermeneutical unpacking of capital’s historical entanglements with violence, production, alienation, and ecological ruin—an ancient yet persistently relevant concern we trust will resonate with contemporary audiences.

This presentation is enriched by the insightful audio contributions of Marco
Bene and PostBrothers—companions and comrades of the artist—whose deconstructive commentary extends and refracts the work’s inclinations and declinations.

João Maria Gusmão

João Maria Gusmão

João Maria Gusmão (b. 1979) is a Lisbon-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice is grounded in a distinctive methodology of critical archaeology and the re-enactment of early photography and cinema. Through this approach, Gusmão explores alternative modes of perception and consciousness, drawing on literature, speculative worldviews, and conceptual investigations into space-time, matter, and ontology. His work consistently challenges conventional frameworks of representation, interrogating how images are constructed, mediated, and understood. A central focus of his recent studio practice is the development of an analogue photographic technique for producing “instant” color prints. Using light-sensitive photographic paper exposed directly in-camera—bypassing the use of negatives—Gusmão circumvents traditional photographic processes. The paper is then developed in his darkroom using experimental chemical treatments, resulting in unique, alchemical prints that blur the boundaries between photography, sculpture, and painting.
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