'NOISE | RUÍDO' revolves around the notion of noise. The background hum of a city in constant change (Luanda? Lisbon?), the noise from the streets, from massive construction and traffic, but also visual noise and, more importantly, noise in communication.

Communication scholars classify four types of noise: physical, psychological, physiological and semantic. Physical noise is external to the speaker and listener. It includes all sounds that make it difficult to hear what is being said. Psychological noise is defined as some kind of mental interference. If someone's mind is wandering, the noise in his head is preventing communication. Physiological noise is any physiological issue that interferes with communication like pain or discomfort and semantic noise occurs when there is no shared meaning in a communication, like when technical terminology is used that lay people may not understand.

In this show, Ihosvanny explores these notions and the interactions between them, as well as the sometimes not obvious relation between noise and silence, using different languages and media - painting, photography and video - but also a large scale site-specific installation which was conceived specifically for this exhibition.