Two premises are usually part of any photographic understanding: the supposed epistemological guarantee of reality and the paradoxical relationship with death, from the temporal disruption....
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Perhaps this is the first gesture for the geodesic reference of a place. I dare say that the second is the one that José Pedro Croft pursues in Et sic in infinitum: the circle....
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A recent hypothesis has been captivating my thoughts: that our collective conception of the future is and will be as poor and unfulfilling as our failure to fabricate more-than-human stories. Although I still lack the bibliographic sources to support this statement from a comparative and...
A recent hypothesis has been c...
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About waters of night, Pádraig Timoney’s first solo exhibition in Portugal, the press release says that the Irish artist “presents in Lisbon a new perspective of his research on the construction of the image”. Upon encountering the mirrors materialised by him and paintings situated between...
About waters of night, Pádrai...
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For the reader who most likely does not know the author who is writing to you, one fact about my life will be important in this article: a little over five years ago, I lost my mother. Yes, thank you, all is well now. Days...
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Sopro and Alka-Seltzer are the two most recent exhibitions at Rialto6. Sopro is a solo show by André Cepeda (Coimbra, 1976), an artist who has used photography to explore the urban nature of cities, and through it invoke intimate and sensitive spatial relationships. In Alka-Seltzer,...
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The essay finds the best conditions to survive in the in-between zone between lógos and poíesis, rigour and originality, calculation and deviation, research and invention. It is within this transitional gap that the essay-form’s interdisciplinarity becomes unruly, a joyful rebellion of concepts, forms, systems and...
The essay finds the best condi...
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"Civilization is defined by law and art". With this striking statement, uttered by Camille Paglia in the controversial Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art from Egypt to Star Wars, Luis Sáragga Leal, partner, founder and president of the board of Fundação PLMJ, points the way...
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Sara Mealha‘s language climbs the walls of Zaratan in her new solo exhibition Ne Pas Plier. The artist presents works made directly on the gallery walls, where words and letters acquire a monumental scale, prolonging the experience of drawing and language....
Sara Mealha‘s language climb...
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The exhibition Ressurreição by Inês Zenha (born in 1995), a Portuguese artist who lives and works in Paris, is at the Kunsthalle Lissabon until March 25....
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