While I was writing about For Laura by Jaime Welsh, I realised the daunting task of grading a visit to the exhibition at Galeria Madragoa. These three photographs are the consequence of a painstaking method of visual conception, but they also stem from a rather...
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With brilliant, mediocre, insensitive, or protesting ideas, artists insist on daily studio work, choosing to ignore the crisis that is brewing or contributing to its critique (depending on the point of view). From a historical standpoint, art reflects issues of contemporary social and political life....
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Oscar Giaconia shows his work for the first time in Lisbon with the set CRYPTOZOOGODEMICHET at MONITOR Lisbon. There are seven bodies that emerge in a language of various layers and transparencies. These emphasize the artist’s knowledge and practice: to build a symbiosis between the...
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Casa da Cerca’s circular cistern serves as a shelter for Raposa, an installation by André Romão. The artist recovers a recurring object in his work: the reflection on the encounter between bodies and the synthesis of our existence. This materialisation is the expression of the...
Casa da Cerca’s circular cis...
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In modern utopia, the island is where the balance lies between nature and men thriving in social, political, ecological, and economic harmony. These ideals are presented from a universal and merely descriptive point of view in the following structure: the account of the space, its...
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Galeria Zé dos Bois opened three new exhibitions, propelled by the cultural venues’ reopening.The artists Patrícia Almeida, Fala Mariam and AnaMary Bilbao, with their aesthetics, create a set of dreams, with different protagonists, interpolating various sensorial impressions. The oneiric dimension is unique, a personal way...
Galeria Zé dos Bois opened th...
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server not found is a series of investigative interviews where the cultural paradigm is debated: a critical and collective archive on visual arts, performance, theatre, music and cinema. In the first issue of snf, I talk to the artistic director and curator of Casa da...
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It’s been a few months since my Thursday afternoon was filled with a visit to a new exhibition. This time I wrote in my agenda, on April 8, “Appleton Opening with several !!!”, as I knew where everyone would go to escape from home. The...
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As part of the monthly UMBIGO online cover, Yuri Firmeza (São Paulo, born in 1982) presents Arca-Palimpsesto (2015). This interview is a complement to the photographic documentation of the piece, providing a general context to the artist’s work and, at the time same, exploring more substantial concepts,...
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Starting with the first lockdown in March, specifically from the fifth day, Daniel Blaufuks reproduces the same format as the weather report videos David Lynch has since added to his Instagram. In these short clips, Lynch reads weather forecasts, commenting poetically on the boring thermal variation of Los Angeles,...
Starting with the first lockdo...
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