MATERIAL GIRL / ALL THAT YOU TOUCH is a solo exhibition devoted to Jota Mombaça which traces a nonlinear path within the artist’s multidisciplinary practice, highlighting the conceptual/formal nexus in the early works—centered on the body, gesture, and the spoken and written word—and the evolution of that nexus in more recent output.

Mombaça’s work tackles new issues related to the entanglement of human and elemental bodies, in a thought that extrapolates the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and sexuality and proposes a new way of inhabiting embodied positionalities. This idea of entanglement is also a working method and exhibition principle, as revealed by this show; it presents distilled gestures and texts from the early works in a remixed form, for example in the immersive composition of wall writings.