Discussing the Azores is akin to exploring a romanticised idea of nature: the lagoons, the lush green fields, the cows grazing over dazzling landscapes, the ocean, so close, so huge and profound, the geological legacy, the hot springs and luscious muds...
Discussing the Azores is akin ...
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A phonograph that is also a gas cooker; a bed that holds an upright piano underneath the mattress; a dining table with the crockery always displayed on top, transformed into a decorative wall piece after the meal....
A phonograph that is also a ga...
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To be human is to be born aware of one's end. Faced with this certitude, we can nevertheless find solace from death in passion: through love we are eternal. In this spiralling encounter with the other, the deepest corners of our being surface. For to...
To be human is to be born awar...
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Tomorrow, Wednesday, 28 February, Cosmos will open its doors for a film experience in solidarity with Palestine. Starting at 9pm, a selection of films curated by Mar Vallejo and Mattia Tosti will be shown from the Tokyo Reels - a set of twenty 16mm works...
Tomorrow, Wednesday, 28 Februa...
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The two exhibitions now showing at Appleton, in Alvalade, until March 7, draw, seemingly without any coordination, upon the same two concepts: faith as part of human nature and the surveillance technology....
The two exhibitions now showin...
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Between literature, performance, drawing, video and painting, contemporary Brazilian artist Paula Parisot has been building a solid trajectory from her hometown, Rio de Janeiro, and her city of choice, Buenos Aires. With an eminently eclectic approach, mixing and experimenting with different media, techniques, shapes and...
Between literature, performanc...
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A Cadência de uma Chama could have been the prologue to Gaston Bachelard's The Flame of a Candle (La flamme d'une chandelle, 1961). Or it could be the name of an unseen sequel to Stanley Kubrick's film Barry Lyndon (1975). Nevertheless, Gonçalo Preto chose this...
A Cadência de uma Chama could...
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The 1970s and 1980s LGBT underground world has been a subject of pop culture in recent years. Series, films, books and records have all emphasised the idea of an ostracised community inhabiting a certain worldview, with its own codes and political struggles surrounding that socialisation....
The 1970s and 1980s LGBT under...
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Henrique Pavão's exhibition Waiting Around to Die, curated by Adriana Molder, on display at Galeria Casa A. Molder is, before any cultural reference - the title is the name of a 1968 song by Townes Van Zandt -, an allusion to music as a way...
Henrique Pavão's exhibition W...
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(Português) Foi uma visita despretensiosa, num típico sábado ensolarado do inverno lisboeta. Dirigi-me à Galeria Cristina Guerra na expetativa de encontrar a atmosfera mais ou menos familiar a que nos convidam as fotografias de André Cepeda – sempre bastante reconhecíveis nos seus contrastes rigorosos, enquadramentos...
(Português) Foi uma visita de...
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