Settling back into day-to-day life following the hectic hot months leads to some contradictory feelings. In September summer comes to an end, but not quite. It is the threshold. September is both summer and the run-up to autumn. All in the same month. Some people...
Settling back into day-to-day ...
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The exhibition Cravos e Veludo at the National Museum of Contemporary Art of Chiado (MNAC) is proof of this - of the power of art to bridge narratives and connections in a given time period between two countries at opposite corners of Europe....
The exhibition Cravos e Veludo...
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To perform with one's body for the camera is now a widespread and highly popular practice, especially with the advent of social media. However, if we go back a few decades, enacting movements in front of a photo or video camera was a highly disruptive...
To perform with one's body for...
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Pedro Sequeira (b. 1976, Cinfaes, Portugal) works under the principle of the autonomy of creation, that is, under the premise that creativity-activity does not just correspond to the productivity of the imagination, but to production. In Sequeira's work, the conception of this creativity emerges in...
Pedro Sequeira (b. 1976, Cinfa...
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Words and photography are mutually interchangeable terms. They are used to build world images - in fact, photographs and words are used to build worlds. Photography and words are more than just testimonies, they are constitutive elements....
Words and photography are mutu...
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London's National Gallery opened the Hockney and Piero exhibition on August 8, in which the British museum reiterates the greatness of one of the world's leading living artists, David Hockney (Bradford, 1937), and the force of the English figurative pictorial tradition....
London's National Gallery open...
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Sara Bichão has a working process, frequently the offspring of artistic residencies, rooted in her relationship with nature, her body and the objects she discovers in her surroundings. These creations are generated by the conflict and memory of such encounters, made with materials collected on...
Sara Bichão has a working pro...
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In the exhibition Um Labirinto de Passos Intermináveis (A Labyrinth of Endless Steps), the largest group of pieces by Alexandra Ferreira is gathered in the exhibition room of the Solar dos Zagallos building. The remaining pieces are dotted around the palace gardens....
In the exhibition Um Labirinto...
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It is difficult to resort to words in the realm of the unknown. In this space, which is not exactly void - or perhaps it is the opposite, i.e., excessive, euphoric and crowded - all it takes is a small stumble and one is back...
It is difficult to resort to w...
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‘Textura’ (Texture) was the first word that came to mind as I left the Convento de Santo António in Loulé after visiting the Tecnosfera exhibition by Rodrigo Gomes. It's curious how ideas stick to what we perceive of the world through words....
‘Textura’ (Texture) was th...
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