crítico sob rasura: Caio Eduardo Gabriel
“Existe maior dificuldade em interpretar as interpretações do que em interpretar as coisas.” Assim começa Derrida o seu A Estrutura, o Signo e o Jogo nas Ciências Humanas.
Read MoreWorkshop participants were invited to take part in a work in progress by artist Francisco Vidal entitled Name drop for the African Industrial Revolution. The work consists of a performance in which Vidal draws portraits of the participants in an analogy to The Artist is Present, a work Marina Abramović showed at MoMA, New York, in 2010.
Read MoreFor an artist whose work talks about colonialism and mass production, Francisco Vidal’s choice of studio – a former bomb factory in Lisbon’s Oeiras suburb – seems highly charged.
The Lisbon-born artist, who is of Angolan and Cape Verdean descent, views himself as a machine and his studio as a workshop.
Read MoreFrancisco Vidal’s current practice revisits the modernist idea of technology as central to the dream of utopia, represented by the machine.
Tiwani Contemporary will present a site-specific installation by Vidal, produced using his utopia machine: a standard-size plywood box containing an all-in-one toolkit for the mass production of screen prints, also functioning as a papermaking device.
Read MoreEritage Exhibition | Rito de Passagem | 10.10.2020 - 31.01.2021
A mudança é a única constante. A vida é um processo de eternas transformações que ocorrem de forma gradual e sutil: ano a ano, mês a mês, dia a dia, momento a momento. Nada dura para sempre, e essa realidade nos é ao mesmo tempo maravilhosa e terrível!
Change is the only constant. Year by year, month by month, day by day, moment by moment, everything is changing. Nothing lasts forever, and this truth is both wonderful and terrible.
Os artistas selecionados apresentam trabalhos fundamentais que apontam na direção de um rito de passagem, uma observância da mudança, uma identidade inconstante, um apelo à ação.
The selected artists present recent and new works that point in the direction of a rite of passage, an observance of change, a shifting identity, a call to action.
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