In Bartolomeu Santos' Friend and Foe, the emphasis is apparently on the copulative conjunction “and”, establishing an affinity and complicity between the antagonistic concepts “friend” and “ foe”....
In Bartolomeu Santos' Friend a...
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In this exhibition, Sara Fonseca da Graça, or Petra Preta, brings together a three-part overview of her artistic output over the last three years. In other words, it offers a trilogy of some of her cross-disciplinary pieces that form her library of images, which have...
In this exhibition, Sara Fonse...
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Pedro Sequeira (b. 1976, Cinfaes, Portugal) works under the principle of the autonomy of creation, that is, under the premise that creativity-activity does not just correspond to the productivity of the imagination, but to production. In Sequeira's work, the conception of this creativity emerges in...
Pedro Sequeira (b. 1976, Cinfa...
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What is art if not time felt, made real in space - or the embodiment of time perceived, acknowledged in space? With that said, I'm not speaking of the Hegelian Zeitgeist, much less the Rieglian Kunstwollen, but rather of the concept of a threshold between...
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In Terracotta, Marta Castelo dismisses hierarchy, division, history and even representation in the arts by exhibiting (modular and) modelled drawings in clay. On the four walls of a room in the nineteenth-century Valada-Azambuja mansion - which now houses Biblioteca Camões -, there are geometric volumes...
In Terracotta, Marta Castelo d...
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(Português) Joanna Piotrowska transporta as propriedades conceptuais da fotografia —e simultaneamente da memória— para a sua esfera formal. Essa circunstância é evidente imediatamente após a entrada no espaço da galeria....
(Português) Joanna Piotrowska...
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The Municipal Galleries have committed this April to a programme that reflects the month's symbolic events, marking the fiftieth anniversary of the overthrow of fascism in Portugal. Not from a celebratory perspective, but from a critical viewpoint. Out of its five spaces, at least three...
The Municipal Galleries have c...
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Alice Geirinhas' Existem Pedras nos Olhos [There are Stones in the Eyes] opened in February, but it dates from March. All feminist struggles are said to belong to March. This is not stated by the artist, who turns her practice into everlasting resistance, without paying...
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Our relationship with the end seems to be intimately linked to our relationship with infinity. Of the dualisms that modernism has fuelled, drinking from the cup of Christian axioms, perhaps this liminal space between the ephemeral and the eternal is one of the greatest anxieties...
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