Architecture has established itself as a field that goes beyond construction, using its conceptual, social, technological and political instruments to analyse phenomena that are more or less evident or imperceptible. Ranging from local history to the recently coined hyperobjects, its practice is becoming closer to...
Architecture has established i...
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Pedra e Vento, by Tiago Baptista and Mariana Gomes, is on display at Buraco, in Lisbon, until March 29th....
Pedra e Vento, by Tiago Baptis...
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What is a biennial supposed to achieve when the very centre of it seems to amass such a centripetal force that all else in the industrial, social and residential fringes - many of which are in the throes of an unstable political reckoning - seems...
What is a biennial supposed to...
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Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas (MACE) celebrated its fifteenth anniversary two years ago. It was a major city-wide event, bordered by baroque walls and lined with medieval streets and alleys. From Forte da Graça, just a few kilometres from the centre, to the Castle;...
Museu de Arte Contemporânea d...
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Women are allies. When there are women in a group, you, either as a man or as a woman, are safe - safe from toxic masculinity, sexual and gender-based violence, abuse, sorrow and depression. They establish a place, a tiny place that nourishes your freedom,...
Women are allies. When there a...
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There has been an enormous wealth of knowledge in art on space, design and the images we harbour of those places we inhabit. It has also proved valuable in teaching us about the way we perceive the world, shapes and the more or less isolated,...
There has been an enormous wea...
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Identity. That shifting and morphing thing. Which is body and crowd, which is a choir and a cry in the void. Identity. That vague thing. Unclear to some, so precise to others. Identity. Ever so subjective, and now we are being told: no, it is...
Identity. That shifting and mo...
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In The Vegetarian, Han Kang narrates the story of a South Korean woman rebelling against patriarchy, society and life. Hampered by the domesticity to which Korean culture forces her, that of a dutiful wife and mother, the main character starts with a small revolution: she...
In The Vegetarian, Han Kang na...
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Everything slips away in the accelerationist, hyper-productive, autophagic onslaught of time, in the single-mindedness of the macropolitical #SYSTEM, political without any conviction, political without any sincerity.But what is this #SYSTEM anyway? It is all that surpasses us: God's right and left hand; neoliberalism, with its...
Everything slips away in the a...
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