This was supposed to be a brief phone call regarding her second solo exhibition at NO·NO Gallery, but it escalated into a long and meaningful multi-part conversation, after all we are talking about the artist Ana Pérez-Quiroga....
This was supposed to be a brie...
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Do Jardim, um Oceano (From the Garden, an Ocean) is the fruit of Panmela Castro's most recent artistic residency in Lisbon. Following an invitation from Francisco Fino Gallery, the Brazilian visual artist spent two months leading a series of gatherings in her studio, individually captured...
Do Jardim, um Oceano (From the...
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As we walk into the Kaleidoscope exhibition, the place is overwhelmed by an intense light coming from the wide windows in the spacious CABANAmad room. The vibrant glow pervades the multicoloured, translucent pieces hanging on the wall. Long, languid, caramel-coloured birds stand in sharp contrast...
As we walk into the Kaleidosco...
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Rita Gaspar Vieira's exhibition Água Viva explores the drama underlying water, articulating its different facets to build objects whose circumstantial essence touches on themes such as memory and identity, fragility and transcendence....
Rita Gaspar Vieira's exhibitio...
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Women are allies. When there are women in a group, you, either as a man or as a woman, are safe - safe from toxic masculinity, sexual and gender-based violence, abuse, sorrow and depression. They establish a place, a tiny place that nourishes your freedom,...
Women are allies. When there a...
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The Casa do Comum auditorium was full on July 3rd for the screening of the film Revolución Puta by María Galindo. Whilst travelling through Europe to attend the Venice Biennale and the Avignon Festival, the artist and de-colonial feminist activist was invited to Lisbon by...
The Casa do Comum auditorium w...
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Moeda Viva [Living Currency] is the latest exhibition to be held at Galeria Quadrum. Curated by Maria do Mar Fazenda, its central theme, as the title suggests, is money....
Moeda Viva [Living Currency] i...
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In Terracotta, Marta Castelo dismisses hierarchy, division, history and even representation in the arts by exhibiting (modular and) modelled drawings in clay. On the four walls of a room in the nineteenth-century Valada-Azambuja mansion - which now houses Biblioteca Camões -, there are geometric volumes...
In Terracotta, Marta Castelo d...
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Surdo, cuíca, chocalho, pandeiro, agogô, repique: one does not need to know the instruments' vocabulary by heart to enjoy Ernesto Neto's fun. Neither one needs to be Brazilian, know how to play nor have any sense of rhythm....
Surdo, cuíca, chocalho, pande...
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Ovid writes early in his Metamorphoses that our world originally experienced a flood that led to a large swamp. All things were gestated in this sun-warmed clay, including you, admirable Python, colossal serpent and Apollo's nemesis....
Ovid writes early in his Metam...
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