“The leaf is the paradigmatic form of openness: the life which is capable of being pierced by the world without allowing itself to be destroyed by it.” We read this in an underlined excerpt from Emmanuele Coccia’s The Life of Plants, placed in one of...
“The leaf is the paradigmati...
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Rita Gaspar Vieira (in situ art project for the IST Geosciences Museums - Inst. Sup. Técnico)...
Rita Gaspar Vieira (in situ ar...
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At Galeria Diferença, Catarina Pinto Leite presents a journey through the textures, forms and possibilities of Japanese paper as a means of expression of lightness and intimacy. Rua de mão única is an installation with several moments and areas that suggest the domestic and its...
At Galeria Diferença, Catarin...
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Rui Calçada Bastos understands how important secrecy is. The envelope as a wrapping, of a latent content, tells us nothing - it’s a façade. Many times, we don’t even see it here - lights project it, glass and photographs suggest it, like a spectre. When...
Rui Calçada Bastos understand...
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This intimate interview with the artist using the moniker Kuril Chto, highlights his artistic practice, politics, current exhibition, forthcoming projects, and political and philosophical position on being a Russian artist working in Portugal....
This intimate interview with t...
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Widely present in literature, the figure of speech called synecdoche means to understand several things simultaneously. The goal is to consider the part as the whole and the whole as the part. This is the concept that artist HElena Valsecchi uses to name her solo...
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When we enter, we see hanging cloths from the ceiling as if they were tapestries. They prevent us from entering, forcing us to swerve or duck. We cannot avoid them - and neither can we avoid the voices we hear, the hidden and marginalized contexts,...
When we enter, we see hanging ...
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Speeding alone at night, Morre Longe, Tiago Alexandre’s latest exhibition at Appleton, has a route: six motorbike helmets display six liquid paintings on the visors. They are stills of a route specified in the exhibition text, as the path from the artist’s house to Lisbon’s...
Speeding alone at night, Morre...
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Perhaps we can understand Panamérica, lavro e dou fé! Ato 1 - Haiti o Ayiti as the first break in a long journey....
Perhaps we can understand Pana...
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All we ask is to be sown on earth is a sentence said by the collective of wheat grains, claiming to exist according to the cycles of nature and not under the industrial and alienated production system that pushes them away from the former. The...
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