Catarina Braga’s artistic work has several layers, from bringing home natural elements, planting and multiplying them in our habitat, to the attempt of making their plastic mimicry. In a third possible reading, there is also the simulacrum, the possible return to a nature paradoxically out...
Catarina Braga’s artistic wo...
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The São Bento Hill is a pre-historical archaeological place in Évora. A massive granite slab has witnessed the civilizational passage from the Mesolithic to the Neolithic, the long-lost human fluxes and struggles, the transitional and gregarious communities that have branded their mark there. In front...
The São Bento Hill is a pre-h...
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About Today, by João Louro, at zet gallery, curated by Helena Mendes Pereira, is a solo exhibition that allows the visitor to go through the artist’s work. The works were created between 1995 and 2019, marked by an important reflection on contemporaneity, the use of...
About Today, by João Louro, a...
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The shift to digital exhibitions formats for institutions, curators, and photographers themselves have had quite an acceleration since the start of the pandemic, even though considerable of long duration.Demonised by some, considered an opportunity by others, the online world can signify a threat or a...
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Through the Keyhole is a formless and informal project, intending to show how different works, documents and objects are displayed in one’s home. It is not so much an exhibition as an unconcerned show, composed by idiosyncrasies and affections that escape us, with reflections not...
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The College of Arts of the University of Coimbra and the platform UmbigoLAB will start a collaboration program in March, in the development of activities in partnership with the Doctoral Course in Contemporary Art and the Master in Curatorial Studies, included in the Of(f)-Campus Seminar...
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The environment has been one of the most talked-about topics in recent months, or even in recent years, to anticipate and prevent latent climate change. This was the most urgent issue before the pandemic. The effort to mitigate the consequences was already being made. Sustainability...
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Supernatural Togetherness is the leitmotif opening the first edition of the Art(e)facts Biennial, which gathers three municipalities of Beira Baixa (Fundão, Guarda and Manteigas) and prepares the Application of Guarda for the European Capital of Culture 2027 (AGECC 2027), within the programme of Architecture and Territory.Grounded...
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As part of the monthly UMBIGO online cover, Yuri Firmeza (São Paulo, born in 1982) presents Arca-Palimpsesto (2015). This interview is a complement to the photographic documentation of the piece, providing a general context to the artist’s work and, at the time same, exploring more substantial concepts,...
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