Irony is the strength of youth and the desideratum of intelligence. In its ambiguity, there is a concept of layers and shades: from humour to terror, from reality to fantasy, irony is the acuity of a purposely contrived truth. Unsurprisingly, the great works (dramatic, literary,...
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The demise of modern souls arrives when machines come to a halt. 1 minute later, stock exchanges collapse; 2 minutes later, air traffic vanishes from crumbling skies; 10 minutes later, panic sets itself around the globe with looting, guerrillas and riots; 1 month later, there’s...
The demise of modern souls arr...
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An exhibition assembled against the artists and the space they advocate for their work is doomed to failure.An exhibition that expands itself to encompass more than one hundred authors, not far from two hundred, is doomed to failure.An exhibition that articulates a never-ending array of...
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Filipa Oliveira is the curator of the second edition of the Navigator Art on Paper Prize, which distinguishes the best international paper-made productions.Contemporary art has prompted the experimentation and hybridization of techniques and means, and the immediate association that paper is merely the support of...
Filipa Oliveira is the curator...
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No other profession is as exposed to space and time as architecture. The multiple disciplines involved prove just that, encompassing many other technicians and knowledges, who are perennially required to excavate and edify from the stones. Because, as inert as it may seem, a stone...
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O Mundo Começou às 5 e 47 [The World Started at 5:47 am] and with it the promise of a new day.O Mundo Começou às 5 e 47 [The World Started at 5:47 am], with the sun piercing the horizon and the dawn of a...
O Mundo Começou às 5 e 47 [T...
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After an extensive period dedicated to the studying of contemporary art, one may think that there are a certain gesture and formula that might turn the works and exhibitions into something repetitive and obvious. The same subjects, the same forms of spatial occupation, the same...
After an extensive period dedi...
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Imbéciles, je vous pardonne; mais ressouvenez-vous que sans les sens il n’y a point de mémoire, et que sans la mémoire il n’y a point d’esprit. Aventure de la Mémoire (1773), Voltaire The first step toward oblivion is the tiny erasure gestures. The second step is to do...
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Is there any chemical substance that will allow me to stop being human?I have everything. I am blessed as part of a petty-bourgeois middle class, I travel whenever I can, I buy when I consider appropriate. By default, I am unlimited. In the morning, a serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake...
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Regardless of how libertarian and liberator one may be, there is always a coefficient – even if residual – that attaches the body and its policies to the State. After all, as Coetzee mentions, no one is born out of a State, and the first gesture in...
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