Mafalda Ruão interviews Luísa Jacinto, the author of the June cover of Umbigo’s online edition, who has an endless dialogue with painting; after all, this has within itself the relentless hermeneutic, the quest for the reason for being. At first, a gesture that rips the...
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Mafalda Ruão interviews Rebeca Romero, author of the cover of the month of Umbigo’s online edition, exploring her multidimensional trajectory, lying in-between cultures, times and practices, to reflect on history through an invitation to imagine the world not longer imprisoned in the legacy of the...
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Mafalda Ruão interviews Isabel Cordovil, author of the monthly cover of Umbigo's online edition, exploring a large part of her body of work, the one that materializes an invitation to dialogue and, through the irreverence of her voice, reveals herself as an attempt to respond...
Mafalda Ruão interviews Isabe...
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Madeira, vast, steep, long landscapes and endless horizons, where the green exudes and dominates, except when we walk high up through the clouds....
Madeira, vast, steep, long lan...
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At dawn on February 24, Ukraine experienced the first jolts of the Russian invasion, which has since ridden roughshod over that territory. Life as we know it will never be the same again. The world’s current state of affairs shows us the fragility of a...
At dawn on February 24, Ukrain...
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How many lives do we live?How many times do we die?A timeline guides our existence and that of all things. At certain times this line remains stable, without any breaks; on other occasions, we may feel interferences to the alleged flat course that implies that...
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Synaesthesia, which comes from the Greek synaísthesis, is a neurological condition where the action of one sense – vision, hearing or another – evokes automatic and involuntary perceptive experiences by another sense[1]. We speak of heightened sensations, experiences that are far from being limited to a single...
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«Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.»Henry David Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, 1854 What happens to the world, happens to us.After all, since the planet’s creation, nothing has been...
«Only that day dawns to which...
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Interdisciplinary artist with an undisciplined voice, ready to be heard, this is the cry of Grada Kilomba, through different academic and artistic languages, the central point of a work that speaks about history, memory, trauma, colonialism, racism. The past that has already passed, tidied away...
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Any leap in the dark has two outcomes: either the courage and adrenaline when discovering the unpredictable or the fear of falling into the unknown, with no foot, no reasoning, and no safety.Any day has two moments: the one when we are awake and the...
Any leap in the dark has two o...
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