The post-Troika was an illusion, after the vows to reform the unspeakable neoliberal system. Since then, little or nothing has changed. The recipes and precepts are the same: maximise the touristic flow, profit from foreigners, speculate, sell, sell, sell and gather short-term profits, to then...
The post-Troika was an illusio...
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Memórias de uma (H)era by Paulo Lourenço is an exhibition that shows the limits of serigraphy and the plastic and three-dimensional capacity it can acquire when taken to the extreme. Besides the vegetal and phytomorphic motifs, Lourenço adds the marks of a long process -...
Memórias de uma (H)era by Pau...
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Despite different practices and portfolios, and notwithstanding being independent shows, there is a common logic in the exhibitions Desarrumada by Rita Gaspar Vieira and Debaixo de cada cor by Pedro Calapez. In both, there is a plentiful nexus made of layers, the material construction with...
Despite different practices an...
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In Diary of a Bad Year, J. M. Coetzee wrote something like “we are not born outside a State”. Or something like that.When we are born, we are given a number, an address, a name, a nationality, an ID. Without having any chance from birth, a...
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Life’s irreversibility is parallel to the force of the present. Life is driven, changed and commanded by the present, without recourse, retreat, renewal. At most, there is a transitory or preparatory hiatus, which precedes the next action. This is sometimes established by universal, systematic or...
Life’s irreversibility is pa...
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In 2017, a group of four young artists founded one of the most unusual contemporary art spaces in Lisbon. Radical, vibrant, this group would end up creating a remarkable site for experimentation: a laboratory made by young people, whose works show the energetic, and sometimes...
In 2017, a group of four young...
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Between the scale and weight of maritime borders in global political daily life, and the evidence of a sovereign element that sweeps everything in its different flows and currents, Entre Deux Eaux, by Adrien Missika, presents a geological era that calls for political and scientific...
Between the scale and weight o...
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Founded by Bento Jesus Caraca, in collaboration with Manuel Rodrigues de Oliveira, Biblioteca COSMOS is a milestone in the Portuguese publishing landscape, in a period when knowledge was not democratised and illiteracy was dominant in Portugal. From this perspective, publishing a hundred books on general...
Founded by Bento Jesus Caraca,...
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The And Yet You Go On exhibition is an essay on humour and deviation. If we have to characterise it, then it belongs to the ambiguous but stimulating category of post-irony: humour can be a resource for a return to sincerity – the elementary purpose...
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The death of the gods starts with the birth of the sciences as founding, factual and fundamental disciplines of the being.Meanwhile, the death of magical thought bifurcated in the death of the gods and an approach to the poetic and phenomenological thought – here, no...
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