Our relationship with the end seems to be intimately linked to our relationship with infinity. Of the dualisms that modernism has fuelled, drinking from the cup of Christian axioms, perhaps this liminal space between the ephemeral and the eternal is one of the greatest anxieties...
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Diogo Gama and Eduardo Fonseca e Silva move in opposing directions. Diogo resembles an erupting volcano, trialling in all directions, devouring forgettable images for the outside world, storing and replicating them. Eduardo is like a river running down a mountain, gliding between its banks, aware...
Diogo Gama and Eduardo Fonseca...
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I never find it easy to express in words how painting operates, as Diana Cerezino presents in her solo exhibition Com o olhar; Caminhando at Galeria Plato in Évora. The paintings evade the burden of representation and, before them, an exhausted quest for the recognisable...
I never find it easy to expres...
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In Man and The Sacred, French sociologist Roger Caillois explores the complex relationship between human societies and the sacred, which manifests itself in the most mundane aspects of life, imbued with an immanent quality that permeates individual and social consciousness....
In Man and The Sacred, French ...
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In its many guises, memory is recognised as an affective means of reading the past in the present, which, coupled with an awareness of future loss, drives conservation, archiving and paradoxical recording in a bid to block the passage of time - allowing the presence...
In its many guises, memory is ...
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On Lea Managil's exhibition, Roses, currently on show at Zaratan - Arte Contemporânea, in Lisbon, until March 16....
On Lea Managil's exhibition, R...
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Discussing the Azores is akin to exploring a romanticised idea of nature: the lagoons, the lush green fields, the cows grazing over dazzling landscapes, the ocean, so close, so huge and profound, the geological legacy, the hot springs and luscious muds...
Discussing the Azores is akin ...
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A phonograph that is also a gas cooker; a bed that holds an upright piano underneath the mattress; a dining table with the crockery always displayed on top, transformed into a decorative wall piece after the meal....
A phonograph that is also a ga...
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To be human is to be born aware of one's end. Faced with this certitude, we can nevertheless find solace from death in passion: through love we are eternal. In this spiralling encounter with the other, the deepest corners of our being surface. For to...
To be human is to be born awar...
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On show at the Exhibition Hall of the Catholic University of Portugal's School of the Arts (Porto), the exhibition Expurgar Papel: Reconstruindo Narrativas do Colonialismo by artist Carla Filipe (1973) is part of the research project Não foi Cabral: revendo silêncios e omissões, which is...
On show at the Exhibition Hall...
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