“Bitches know they can’t catch me (Vroom, vroom) Cute, sexy and my ride’s sporty (Vroom, vroom) Those slugs know they can’t catch me (Vroom, vroom) Beep-beep, so let’s ride” Charli XCX, Vroom Vroom (2016) Movement, acceleration and speed are hallmarks of Modernity. These are elements of the same equation that...
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The D.E.A.D. Man by Henrique Pavão is a performance and a record that takes place on several planes.The most obvious is the quotation itself. By using Neil Young’s sound composition for Jim Jarmusch’s 1995 film - something recurrent in the artist’s work, which resorts to...
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In Common Space: The City as Commons, Stavros Stavrides establishes cities as breeding grounds of “communalities”, that is, sites that make common what is inherent to the city. This aptitude to communalise - to produce the “common” and “in common” - implies a daily sharing...
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The eye is the organ that dictates, that commands and synthesizes. The eye monopolizes and the information captured by it precedes all the other senses. In a visual age, where the image carries an ontology that is intertwined with that of modern civilization, the eye,...
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Uma vida inteira by Nuno Sousa Vieira is an extensive exercise in spatial construction and deconstruction, where the body is a pivotal element of this uninterrupted game composed of forms and perceptions. This game makes us aware of the many lives experienced by an artist’s...
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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...
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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 -...
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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...
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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...
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