The rear-view mirror is a visual aid that lets us be aware of what we have left behind as we move ahead. This casting of the subject out of the field sensitises them to the negative distance they unwittingly establish between themselves and the forgotten...
The rear-view mirror is a visu...
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When the poetics of technique and function are replaced by the pornographic and compulsive gratification of a commercial craving, what do we end up seeing? When the object turns into a hassle and loses its sparkle of novelty. When that porcelain, that glass, those plastic...
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California Dreamin' is a well-known expression that generally refers to the idea of a dream or fantasy associated with the California lifestyle. It is inevitably linked to a sense of nostalgia and a desire to escape to a place of opportunity that allows for a...
California Dreamin' is a well-...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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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