Art in Quarantine — Ana Vidigal
UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times. Project by the artist Ana Vidigal....
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The Opening Response: Gavin Gamboa
The Opening Response titles a special series of interviews with artists, curators, writers, composers, mediators, and space-makers around the world. Dialoguing within and around the thematics which have rapidly emerged as a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic, we offer within this frame a differentiated, honest,...
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A floating author in a floating island
This is Álvaro Lapa and here we evoke him, asking: “Does reading solve”? The title, taken from one of his works, does not come up with a decision. In it, images, their senses and meanings move in water and air. Stylish, weak, ductile are also...
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5 Cultural Suggestions — Susana Mendes Silva
Every week, UMBIGO invites two people to share their 5 cultural suggestions. What can we do at home? From a book to a podcast, album or film: here are recommendations from artists, curators, gallery owners, cultural activists, friends.We will share the recipe for what makes...
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5 Cultural Suggestions — Marilá Dardot
Every week, UMBIGO invites two people to share their 5 cultural suggestions. What can we do at home? From a book to a podcast, album or film: here are recommendations from artists, curators, gallery owners, cultural activists, friends.We will share the recipe for what makes...
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House, by Uri Aran
There are many possible triggers when one steps into an art show and when experiencing a contemporary art exhibition; all the senses are allowed and should eventually be challenged. This is exactly what the artist Uri Aran does in his current show at GBE (Gavin...
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Art in Quarantine — Pedro Valdez Cardoso
UMBIGO invited several artists to reflect on the era we are living in and to think about their artistic production in quarantine times.Today we start this new section, being the first project by the artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso.—Pedro Valdez Cardoso, ISOLATION, March 2020"Surrendered to self...
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Túlia Saldanha and Rosemarie Castoro: the uncomfortable invisibility
This text is the consequence of two first encounters: one with the work of the artist Túlia Saldanha. Until her retrospective in 2014 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, she was practically unknown in the Portuguese artistic and cultural milieu; and the second encounter in a...
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Umbigo #71 – EN (free download)
UMBIGO is in solidarity with people who are quarantined due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Thus, we provide, on the link below, Umbigo Magazine # 71 (free pdf download of the printed edition) to encourage reading at home. #stayhomestaysafe [elfsight_file_embed id="3"] ...
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Clarity
“The hours that hold the figure run their course within the house of the dream.” Walter Benjamin (in One-Way Street) In 2019, Leonor Hipólito held two exhibitions at different Sá da Costa venues. In the gallery of the bookstore, where she showed the project Que permanecendo sem ser,...
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