The smell is the most memory-triggering sense. The odour is the catalyst for a heap of electrical synapses that retrieve, somewhere between the amygdala and hippocampus, a past, an emotion, a mundane mental picture. Smell is an inner, personnel travel, a clash between the past and the...
The smell is the most memory-t...
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We are not ourselves is not a finished exhibition. Everything has yet to be concluded, glued, cleaned, fixed. Plastics have to be removed, there is tape ready to be cleared, ink to be painted, canvases to be positioned. The utensils of the whole assemblage are impudently exhibited as...
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Re Cordum. Voltar ao Coração 5 (2014) is an artwork by the Portuguese artist Vasco Araújo, exhibited at ARCOlisboa 2018, in the Galeria Horrach Moya’s booth.Five African busts represent the collective voice of a forgotten continent, delivered to its insignificance by the West. At the...
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Hanns Schimansky is a German artist whose practice is rooted on drawing. The exhibition The Sound of Drawing, at Galerie Jeanne Bucher Jeager, is the absolute synthesis of a language and expression that the author has been developing throughout decades which make the drawing –...
Hanns Schimansky is a German a...
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Our social behaviour and interaction are developed according to very specific languages, within the landscapes in which we grow or live. This was the greatest discovery of gender studies which, in turn, forced a review of the canons of that time and a dilation of...
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Contemporaneity is a timeless, Warburgian mosaic. People, thoughts, ideas, movements, expressions and manifests coexist in a cellular composition, which may have a shape or not, which may have logic or not. There is no linearity. There is no time. Or, rather, it is everything at...
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The 70s were prolific in porn flicks. Until the early 80s, there was an array of films associated with the so-called classic gay porn. The industry, liberalized, was making movies after movies, but still within the minimum standards related to scenography, script, acting and photography....
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The exhibition of works of art abides by criteria that, more often than not, are more subjective than objective. There are criteria, there are standards, but, at most, the curator or commissioner is the one who establishes them, based on their critical review of those...
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"Is heaviness truly deplorable and lightness splendid?” (Kundera, 1983)In a first moment, the work of Tomás Saraceno says yes. Effectively, the lightness of his works, the incorporeal, diaphanous semblances of his fluttering pieces are appealing and inside of us they are consolidated in a desire for equality: I...
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The respect for private memory surpasses the respect for public memory. Between the residence, the home, the house, and the square, the objects of the past safeguard a distinct survival for each one.In the private domain, the halls and rooms are the preferential spots of exhibition...
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