A Corda Mor is a hybrid project of exhibition, research, performance and poetry that seeks to reflect on the year 1974 – a date of the greatest importance in Contemporary Portuguese History, which inspired many authors and artists not only Portuguese, but also foreigners.In this...
A Corda Mor is a hybrid projec...
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According to her, she is all about hybridity and the utmost professionalism. She embraced Portugal ten years ago and is still here, bridging gaps, performing in different places, giving voice to a body marginalised by the past and calling for revolution. A rallying cry that...
According to her, she is all a...
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At the lowest point of a building is the basement, a place of descent, embedded in the ground. They are spaces to keep secrets, find hiding places and isolation. From an early age, we find them a safe harbour for storing food or essential tools...
At the lowest point of a build...
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The Atelier-Museu Júlio Pomar often bases its practice on the dialogues established between Pomar's works and the works of guest artists from younger generations. Dialogues that erupt through words, through generous stains formed in the drawing or through vigorous strokes woven by the artist, as...
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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...
I never find it easy to expres...
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