DOCUMENT Lisbon is pleased to present Exhibit C, a group exhibition featuring works by Elizabeth Atterbury, Samantha Bittman, Luísa Jacinto, Laura Letinsky & John Paul Morabito, Mané Pacheco, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Tromarama, and Pedro Vaz. Opening on Friday, February 7, the exhibition will remain on view through May 24, 2025.

Following the Exhibit A (2024) and Exhibit B (2025) group exhibitions at DOCUMENT Chicago, Exhibit C builds upon and further expands the themes of investigation, presenting them for the first time at DOCUMENT Lisbon. Working at the convergence of disparate media including weaving, painting, photography, and sculpture, the artists on view – as well as DOCUMENT’s program at large – challenge traditional notions of artistic practices.

Elizabeth Atterbury (b. 1982, West Palm Beach, FL) is a sculptor based in Portland, Maine. Meandering between image and object, Atterbury makes reference to cultural and geographical points of origin. Many of her black-and-white photographs are “abstract” — a paradox for straight photography, which is always tethered to the world. Closer inspection reveals them to be compositions of humble, familiar materials such as cut cardboard and sand. Alternating between areas of light and dark, the gelatin silver prints on view produce convincing interplays between flatness and depth.

Samantha Bittman (b. 1982, Chicago, IL)  is a visual artist based in Kingston, NY. Bittman’s practice developed from her fascination with weaving and the instinctive relationship between pictorial image and woven structure. Bound by the physical parameters of her 12-harness floor loom, she weaves, by hand, a graphically driven pattern, which is then stretched over a traditional wooden frame before having acrylic paint embedded onto each thread.

Luísa Jacinto (b. 1984, Lisbon, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon. Her artistic practice engages with the protocols of the image, narratives, fragmentation, and simulation, as well as the tension between excess evidence and obscuration. Jacinto uses different materials – rubber membrane, thread, fabric, metal, spray, watercolor, loose pigments – and supports, which establish an increasingly fluid boundary between painting, sculpture, and installation.

Laura Letinsky (b. 1962, Winnipeg, Canada) and John Paul Morabito (b. 1982, Bronx, New York) bring photography and weaving into dialogue, exploring the cooperative possibilities between these media. Letinsky’s digital photo collages of the aftermath of flower markets and wedding celebrations were abstracted and woven by Morabito. Intuitively blending colorful wool threads, they simultaneously render and transform the original composition into a new image.

Mané Pacheco (b. 1978, Portalegre, Portugal) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. She has a multifaceted background blending art and environmental conservation. Pacheco’s work is a seamless fusion of her twin passions for art and ecology, utilizing an interdisciplinary approach. Her creations delve into the materiality and symbolism of various objects, exploring themes that span the biological, physiological, and sociological dimensions of power dynamics in relationships.

Paul Mpagi Sepuya (b. 1982, San Bernardino, CA) is an artist working in photography whose projects weave together histories and possibilities of portraiture, queer and homoerotic networks of production and collaboration, and the material and conceptual potential of blackness at the heart of the medium. His interests also include queer literary modernism, as well as questions of artistic responsibility and care regarding representation and refusal.

Established in 2006 in Bandung, Indonesia, Tromarama is formed by Febie Babyrose (b. 1985, Jakarta, Indonesia), Ruddy Hatumena (b. 1984, Manama, Bahrain), and Herbert Hans (b. 1984, Jakarta, Indonesia). Working across video, installation, animation, sound, and algorithmic-based programming, Tromarama makes use of language, text, humor, and public participation to reflect on the relationship between the virtual and the physical worlds.

Pedro Vaz (b. 1977, Maputo, Mozambique) lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal. Rooted in painting, video, and installation, his work is based on the themes of nature and landscape. Personal contact with real environments is fundamental to his practice and these projects often include a guided tour. His process varies between immersion in nature through expeditions and experiencing memory-induced qualities of abstraction when working in his studio.