Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer whose moving image work has been shown at institutions such as MOMA, the European Media Art Festival and the International Film Festival Rotterdam. A MacDowell Fellow in 2024, he has received several awards, including the ARTE Award 2022 and the Best Documentary Short Film Award at the Tacoma Film Festival. His reviews of contemporary art have been published in Art Monthly, The Wire and The Guardian, and are a reference in the UK art debate. He produced and presented the radio programme Studio Visit on Resonance 104.4FM between 2012 and 2023. His first book, ‘汾阳的喧嚣: Ironic Resonance, Anti-sound Design and Radical Cacophony in Jia Zhangke's 小 Xiao 武 Wu’, will be published in 2024.

Morgan Quaintance presents the exhibition ‘Efforts of Nature IV’ at Solar, developed especially for Curtas Vila do Conde.

Renascença was present for the guided tour of the exhibition, led by the artist himself. In this conversation, Morgan Quaintance reflected on some of the challenges of independent work within the Seventh Art industry and how the creations of this craft can be a way of overcoming even death itself.

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