When walking around Belém, you should visit Galeria Avenida da Índia, where you can see, until the middle of February, the recent works of the multidisciplinary artist Carlos Motta (born in 1978), a Colombian living in New York.Curated by Pedro Faro and Sara Antónia Matos,...
When walking around Belém, yo...
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Echo implies a repetition, in which the repeated element is not entirely loyal to its triggering event. It’s something slightly different, albeit never completely independent. It always resonates with what it was.Eco | Echo based on a true story entitles Luís Paulo Costa’s exhibition, curated...
Echo implies a repetition, in ...
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Visual deficiency or blindness may leave anyone at the mercy of somebody else. The biggest sense of them all, that which reigns everything and provokes sometimes synaesthesia, so is its power, commands above all other senses, and most of our understanding in this world is...
Visual deficiency or blindness...
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A long, dark purple hallway leads to a wide room with purple walls, pavement and ceiling. The room is filled with the sound of running water and six large-scale screens light up, emitting the same immersive hue. Purple, the work by British artist and filmmaker...
A long, dark purple hallway le...
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On December 13, 2018, the bar Las Golondrinas, located on the lower floor of the Balcony Gallery, in Lisbon, welcomed a great celebration that marked the inauguration of Maya Saravia’s homonymous exhibition, curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues.Las Golondrinas reenacts the atmosphere of different bars often...
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After an extensive period dedicated to the studying of contemporary art, one may think that there are a certain gesture and formula that might turn the works and exhibitions into something repetitive and obvious. The same subjects, the same forms of spatial occupation, the same...
After an extensive period dedi...
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Returning to the Azores is something equally natural and mandatory, once you are acquainted with the island. I have already written (Umbigo # 65) that there is something in that atmosphere that makes us get attached to it. More: it shakes our core. Of paramount...
Returning to the Azores is som...
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By Maria FernandesThrough which perspective can one see a new geographical reality and what are the eyes looking for, in the newly captured surroundings, when an endless torrent of odours and sounds take control of the senses of the stranger in the parish of Prazeres,...
By Maria FernandesThrough ...
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After Rui Chafes, Julião Sarmento and Pedro Cabrita Reis, the work of Luísa Cunha is now dialoguing with the one of Júlio Pomar, in the exhibition O Material Não Aguenta, curated by Sara Antónia Matos. The exhibition is the continuation of the annual exhibition programme...
After Rui Chafes, Julião Sarm...
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There are countless exhibitions whose curators are crucial for their inception and some may even be considered curator exhibitions, such is their relevance, either by choice or because the exhibition came to fruition after the artist has accepted the curator’s invitation.Al Cartio and Constance Ruth...
There are countless exhibition...
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