I begin this text about Retomar o Passo - Luísa Salvador's first solo exhibition at Galeria Foco - with Caligrafias do Deserto (2025), a work in which I found myself submerged in words, in a suspended time, without coordinates....
I begin this text about Retoma...
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Returning to the image of a flying slipper—a gesture suspended between reprimand and affection, between chaos and play—we find the essence of those messy, tender, and unpredictable bonds that Bennani so brilliantly captures in her work....
Returning to the image of a fl...
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The body as a map, the city as a body. The surfaces of the streets, floors and walls; the textures of the skin. The academic and plastic research of Mariana Maia Rocha, a 24-year-old artist born in Porto, goes beyond thoughts of architecture and sculpture...
The body as a map, the city as...
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The exhibition Don't Take It Too Seriously endeavours to understand how art not only explores the ironic temperament, but above all finds existential alternatives within irony. Despite their different backgrounds and temperaments, the six artists featured here have the same interest in the implicit and...
The exhibition Don't Take It T...
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With its simple attention to detail, YEPSEN(S) reclaims a fleeing, accidental time: that of the LED bulbs' impermanence, in TIALTNGO; that of the corroding of matter in the interlude of time. It is exactly in this gap - forgotten in the frenzied pace of life...
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I walk through JOH's exhibition Solve et Coagvla at Galeria Sá da Costa and stumble upon the first canvas, entitled Avalon. The painter binds us to the titles of his paintings. I become entangled in the game I play between the names assigned to the...
I walk through JOH's exhibitio...
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Ultimately, the exhibition, which leaked out of the gallery through scribbled towels, insists not only on the stillness but also on the transience of that which is installed: is it a site-specific work? Or a performance that reasserts itself?...
Ultimately, the exhibition, wh...
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Diogo Costa is exhibiting six oil paintings on suspended canvas on the -1 floor of Coimbra's Galeria Sete. They are dream-like landscapes, impressionist pieces subtly made surreal by the presence of a foreign body in each one, a white «alienating geometric form»....
Diogo Costa is exhibiting six ...
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A laboratory invariably calls for experimentation. It is a supervised facility equipped with specialised instruments and equipment designed to undertake studies and analyses in different knowledge spheres. It is devised to provide safety and precision, allowing phenomena to be trialled or innovative solutions to be...
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