Sketch for a museum is a round of interviews to expand on the growing reference to colonial and post-colonial issues on the Portuguese art scene in recent years. The primary purpose is to stimulate dialogue between a series of artistic practices and initiatives that have...
Sketch for a museum is a round...
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Rita Gaspar Vieira's exhibition Água Viva explores the drama underlying water, articulating its different facets to build objects whose circumstantial essence touches on themes such as memory and identity, fragility and transcendence....
Rita Gaspar Vieira's exhibitio...
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From a collective and emancipatory standpoint, the exhibition forms of the surrounding futures, curated by João Laia and on show at Galeria Municipal do Porto, offers an alignment of different positions, narratives and agencies which, through a nonconformist kinship, embody themselves in the present....
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Ovid writes early in his Metamorphoses that our world originally experienced a flood that led to a large swamp. All things were gestated in this sun-warmed clay, including you, admirable Python, colossal serpent and Apollo's nemesis....
Ovid writes early in his Metam...
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Yoshitomo Nara says he's afraid of changing. His current exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, however, shows us an artistic production that, over the course of forty years, has courageously and humbly unfolded across different scales, techniques, formats and tonalities....
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(Português) Mu seke (musseque), título da exposição de Renée Gagnon, patente na Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes, é uma palavra que deriva do Kimbundu, língua africana falada no noroeste de Angola e que significa “terra vermelha”....
(Português) Mu seke (musseque...
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MAAT is hosting two exhibitions curated by João Pinharanda: Shining Indifference by Luísa Jacinto and Mar Aberto by Nicolas Floc'h. These seemingly dissimilar exhibitions share a similar vision when exploring colour and the submerged, in an effort to show and embody the unseen....
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In 2024, UmbigoLAB platform expands itself once again beyond the virtual realm, presenting another offline initiative: an artist residency taking place in the facilities and with the resources of ArtWorks – to be held in November....
In 2024, UmbigoLAB platform ex...
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Cristina Lamas describes this exhibition - the result of a three-month residency she held in the Para Amazon - as "a reminder of the end of languages and knowledge, of life cycles and natural phenomena"....
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For an anthropologist - perhaps we could add: and in sociology, being the science closest to the study and context of our actions - the term "alterity" refers to the encounter with the "other". An "other" as in "different"....
For an anthropologist - perhap...
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