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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Life has something macabre about it. We do not choose to be born. When we are born, without expressing any opinion on it, without being in charge, the only thing we do is cry out in pain at what has happened and what lies ahead....
Life has something macabre abo...
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When the poetics of technique and function are replaced by the pornographic and compulsive gratification of a commercial craving, what do we end up seeing? When the object turns into a hassle and loses its sparkle of novelty. When that porcelain, that glass, those plastic...
When the poetics of technique ...
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On Lea Managil's exhibition, Roses, currently on show at Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, in Lisbon, until March 16....
On Lea Managil's exhibition, R...
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