Mutirão[i] at the nowhere: an experiment in living(with)
Germinating forces“Do you know what life is for me? A monster of energy...
Germinating forces“Do yo...
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Life’s Reproduction Policies or a Theorem dedicated to the expansion movements with A Mecânica do Efémero
This piece is like a clock. A solar clock. It moves according to time and light. The information is a useful spark for a continuous movement of liberation-germination, inspired by the exhibition A Mecânica do Efémero at Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon. * The gallery in Marvila has...
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“And it’s as if I’ve suddenly reached the bottom of the end, back to the beginning”. Trauma Response – group exhibition
As I started reading the exhibition leaflet, I was reminded of the song De volta ao começo by the epic Gal Costa, from the 1984 album Profana....
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From desire to recognition. Caring for oneself/caring for all. All I want: Portuguese women artists from 1900 to 2020 at Museu Calouste Gulbenkian
After visiting the vast exhibition – with more than 200 works – at Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian’s headquarters, I walked around the garden wanting to digest all the encounters-affections triggered by the exhibition. After a few minutes, a baby came and looked at me intensely for a...
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Interview with Teresa Huertas, winner of the 16th edition of the Vila Franca de Xira Photography Biennial
Between June and July, the images of the artist Teresa Huertas stared at me. They sweetly murmured: "Look, time is flux in movement. Can you inhabit this place? Can you remember what it is to be an atmospheric gas? Try it." The following interview was...
Between June and July, the ima...
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At the end of it all there’s the beginning, the negotiation! Carlos Noronha Feio at 3+1 Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea
“The negotiation!”The title of Carlos Noronha Feio’s exhibition at Galeria 3+1 Arte Contemporânea ends with an exclamation. Would it be a matter of urgency? Or relief? The artist’s most recent work contains abstract paintings and sculptures. But, as Alistar Hicks suggests in the exhibition text,...
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Urihi theri: Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe at Kunsthalle Lissabon
After visiting the exhibition Urihi theri, by the Yanomami artist Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, a big question arises: how to approach indigenous art? It is not like criticising an artist from a nation-state, European or South American. The different worldview creates a cognitive abyss to be acknowledged...
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There’s more water entering the soil, by Inês Brites
The exhibition There's more water entering the soil by Inês Brites, at Galeria 3+1 in Lisbon, ends on 5 June 2021. The body of work exhibited is composed of sculptures inspired by discarded objects found by the artist....
The exhibition There's more wa...
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Rezo os dentes da tua boca, by Fábio de Carvalho
(Português) Eu me lembro do primeiro gesto: com o meu braço direito afasto uma cortina preta. E assim adentro uma sala iluminada por luzes vermelhas habitada por instantes cristalizados em papel: fotografias de diferentes dimensões instaladas nas paredes, uma no chão, e uma suspensa por...
(Português) Eu me lembro do p...
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Fábio Colaço, Portraits, at Galeria Nave
Ambiguity. Maybe that’s the key to Fábio Colaço’s work. A “key-mechanism” that gives access to several cognitive doors that display different looks. The potential analysis contained in the propositional simplicity is the major success of this approach to social, political and economic themes. In his...
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