About

Madragoa is delighted to present WLD, the first solo exhibition by Steffani Jemison at the gallery and in Portugal.

Steffani Jemison’s work focuses on language, dwelling on that threshold of incertitude where the sign can be either writing or drawing, or rather, where the sign is not yet writing and

not yet drawing. Her creative research reaches back to the vernacular origin of different practices and technologies such as writing, drawing, film and performance: in mark making,

as well as in gestures and movements, the artist identifies traces, patterns that elude a clear decoding of their …