Ultimately, the exhibition, which leaked out of the gallery through scribbled towels, insists not only on the stillness but also on the transience of that which is installed: is it a site-specific work? Or a performance that reasserts itself?...
Ultimately, the exhibition, wh...
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Words and photography are mutually interchangeable terms. They are used to build world images - in fact, photographs and words are used to build worlds. Photography and words are more than just testimonies, they are constitutive elements....
Words and photography are mutu...
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‘Textura’ (Texture) was the first word that came to mind as I left the Convento de Santo António in Loulé after visiting the Tecnosfera exhibition by Rodrigo Gomes. It's curious how ideas stick to what we perceive of the world through words....
‘Textura’ (Texture) was th...
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Alfaia - Associação Cultural strives to plot a dynamic map of its region, with viewpoints that see this context (historical, cultural, geographical, ...
Alfaia - Associação Cultural...
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It is this oscillation between being inside and being outside, between seeing from the outside and simultaneously from the inside, as if in an apparatus that would automatically adjust the vision of a single subject about himself and another that was himself, that Rui Sanches'...
It is this oscillation between...
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For Europe, (oriental) exoticism contains a full and misunderstood scope. Trying to tame it, with the figure of this "Krishna's mouth", seems to be one of the driving forces behind the creative pulse of the Catalan duo Albarrán Cabrera, the artistic fusion of Anna Cabrera...
For Europe, (oriental) exotici...
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Plato founded a school of thought in the middle of the 4th century BC. He did not come up with the name he assigned it - he called it the "Academy" since it existed in a place owned by Academus....
Plato founded a school of thou...
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In 2023, fifty-five years will have passed since the PhD study that the then young anthropologist José Cutileiro finished at Oxford and published in England in 1971 under the title A Portuguese Rural Society (Clarendon Press). Illustrated with photographs by Gérard Castelo-Lopes and João Cutileiro...
In 2023, fifty-five years will...
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There is something joyful about reuniting people with their places. Even if a man disappears - either because he dies or goes away -, even if places fall apart (even more than we are used to accepting; we will still say "That place will always...
There is something joyful abou...
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The color is powerful: yellow, even if in an apparently inconspicuous detail, dominates an atmosphere and propagates into the sensations of contact with art. (It can even be, Proust’s narrative suggests, fatal.) It symbolizes the challenge and the acceptance of the game – the same...
The color is powerful: yellow,...
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