The body as a map, the city as a body. The surfaces of the streets, floors and walls; the textures of the skin. The academic and plastic research of Mariana Maia Rocha, a 24-year-old artist born in Porto, goes beyond thoughts of architecture and sculpture...
The body as a map, the city as...
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From dreams and hope stems a bed - Maria Marques Moderno presents it for the first time in UmbigoLab's Cover of the Month. Between whispers, Maria unfolds what lies beneath the bedsheet, retracing the path she took with a plaster bed along the cold Liege...
From dreams and hope stems a b...
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Flávia Vieira has struck a chord between the European West and the revolutionary and transformational energy of the South American context in Brazil: one that perceives ceramics and textiles as vital vectors for pondering the hierarchies and significance attached to different forms of artistic expression....
Flávia Vieira has struck a ch...
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Pedro Sequeira (b. 1976, Cinfaes, Portugal) works under the principle of the autonomy of creation, that is, under the premise that creativity-activity does not just correspond to the productivity of the imagination, but to production. In Sequeira's work, the conception of this creativity emerges in...
Pedro Sequeira (b. 1976, Cinfa...
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In 2024, UmbigoLAB platform expands itself once again beyond the virtual realm, presenting another offline initiative: an artist residency taking place in the facilities and with the resources of ArtWorks – to be held in November....
In 2024, UmbigoLAB platform ex...
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Luísa Salvador is a visual artist and researcher, studying for a PhD in Contemporary Art History at NOVA FSCH, with a project entitled Paisagens Cruzadas: caminho e rasto na arte contemporânea (Crossed Landscapes: path and trail in contemporary art)....
Luísa Salvador is a visual ar...
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We visited Mariana Viegas' studio-home in Arrábida on a bright winter's day. The entrance was paved with two rows of trees. The towering cypress trees greeted us. We stepped into the kitchen, where coffee was offered. However, we didn't drink it there - we were...
We visited Mariana Viegas' stu...
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Nicolás Paris (Bogotá, 1977) quit his architectural training to work as a teacher in a Colombian rural school. It was there that he developed his interest and research into matters relating to collective learning processes. He brings this experience and expertise to his artistic work,...
Nicolás Paris (Bogotá, 1977)...
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(Português) Júlia Lema Barros é toda ela som, imaterialidade e expansão. A artista que começou no desenho, depressa colocou a imagem em movimento e, desde então, é uma voz em constante reflexão do presente, juntando as peças do ido e do vindouro, num entre mergulhos...
(Português) Júlia Lema Barro...
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UmbigoLAB – an online platform founded in 2018 with the support of Fundação Millennium bcp – has been actively working to achieve its main goal: the implementation of a new dynamic of exhibition, dissemination, and communication in the contemporary art scene.In 2023, it will continue...
UmbigoLAB – an online platfo...
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