O projeto In(sul)ar assinala a dicotomia entre realidade e ficção, pela criação de meta-imagens de uma ilha imaginada, onde o tempo e espaço se confundem entre si. O projeto é constituído por uma instalação de vídeo, som e fotografia, e averigua o território dos Açores como lugar atlântico, que existe no cruzamento entre a Europa e a África. In(Sul)ar é um trabalho de investigação e criação artística que reflete a relação entre o espaço, a memória e a história, bem como o mapeamento do corpo e a sua relação com a arquitetura, e a identidade.
O projeto desenvolve estes conceitos em torno das ilhas do arquipélago dos Açores, assente na representação da paisagem e da sua relação com a arquitetura. Assim, o trabalho acentua a dualidade entre a ruína do projeto turístico e colonial, representado aqui pela presença disruptiva do Hotel Monte Palace, que contrasta com a ideia romântica de uma paisagem tropical.
In(sul)ar remete-nos, também, para um universo imaterial, imaginário, que alude a uma outra geografia (metafísica), situada entre o que flui e o que é sólido, entre construção e desconstrução, ruínaIn(sul)ar e memória do local – aqui, fora do seu lugar.
Um universo entre o canto erudito (em coro) que apela às reminiscências de um passado colonial, e a desconstrução do sentido actual de pertença, que é alimentado pela complexidade dos atuais fluxos migratórios. procura uma identidade que vive da deambulação e se constrói através das ruínas do passado, e dos sons que emergem da penumbra.
Algo que surge do interior da terra e se expande ao interior do corpo, questionando o lugar do indivíduo na narrativa da pertença e do lugar. Este é um projeto que surge, também, de uma residência desenvolvida com o artista Sounslikenuno (Chullage), assente na construção do som. O projeto propõe uma viagem através de um corpo que nem sempre é visível, mas que se revê numa ilha imaginária, entendida como arquétipo da ilha vulcânica. Lida como metáfora de uma viagem ao interior do indivíduo, essa ilha opera uma desconstrução da identidade, enquanto origem fixa e irreversível, sublinhando a dicotomia entre a natureza e cultura, vida e morte.
Walk&Talk returns to São Miguel between 5 – 20 July and in its ninth edition, the festival welcomes more than fifty artists, collectives and curators, presents dozens of new projects that cross art, dance, performance, architecture, design, cinema and music, and builds a new temporary pavilion designed by Artworks & GA Studio.
The program is organized around art circuits that extend to various localities and spaces of the island, hosts artistic residences, exhibitions, shows, concerts, talks, initiatives dedicated to knowledge and parallel events.
Curated by Sérgio Fazenda Rodrigues, the circuit explores the idea of “identity” in its relationship with gender, history, landscape, architecture, archeology and other fields of the sciences, to reflect the actions of the collective in the construction of the geographical “place” , at the same time social, cultural and emotional, synthesis and container of fluid and autonomous identities.
The exhibition that will be presented by the artist was develop as a residency in March 2019 with the support of Pico do Refúgio and in collaboration with the artist SoundsLikeNuno (Chullage) that will develop the sound design of the video to be exhibited at the festival.
A group presentation showcasing works by Joël Andrianomearisoa, Manal AlDowayan, Zoulikha Bouabdellah, Timothy Hyunsoo Lee, Alexandra Karakashian and Mónica de Miranda.
Tyburn Gallery
Carlos de Carvalho Arte Contemporânea
The fifth edition of Photo London. Featuring over 100 of the world’s leading galleries – from Antwerp to Budapest, San Francisco to Cape Town and Berlin to Tokyo – Photo London is the place to discover new artists, new work by established masters and gems from the dawn of photography.
The 13th edition of the EDP Foundation New Artists Award
Isabel Madureira Andrade, AnaMary Bilbao, Dealmeida Esilva, Mónica de Miranda, Henrique Pavão and Diana Policarpo are the six artists who make up this edition’s collective exhibition. Selected by Inês Grosso, Sara Antónia Matos and João Silvério, the exhibition curators, the finalists will present works created specifically for this exhibition project.
South Circular is the new project presented by the artist for this award and it is a research, photography and video project that builds a narrative around the former Lisbon Military Road and reflects issues related to urbanism, immigration and decolonization processes.
This project was developed in collaboration with the actors Binete Undonque, Gio Lourenço, Mauro Herminio, Monáxi, Tanya Araújo, Paulo Pascoal, Ricardo Mascarenhas, Té Macedo and Zia Soares and sound design with Chullage.
SABRINA AMRANI |Torino 2018
Sabrina Amrani presenting works by Joël Andrianomearisoa, Manal AlDowayan, Chant Avedissian, Babak Golkar, Waqas Khan, Mónica de Miranda and Jong Oh.
The series Botanical Gardens has been published here:
A selection of photographs with an essay The Land of no Melancholy written by Katherine Marianne Sirois in the Wrong Wrong issue ‘At Land’: More Info
Military Road will be projected for Urban Photography, Agency and Change, Ana Balona’s intervention in BEYOND THE ENLIGHTENMENT: SEISMIC SHIFTS, URBAN IMAGERY symposium in Culturgest:
Contemporary African Art Fair TYBURN GALERY
1-54 London returned for its sixth edition at Somerset House between the 4-7 October 2018.
The fair welcomed 43 leading galleries from countries across Africa, Europe, the Middle East and North America, presenting over 130 artists from Africa and its diaspora. This edition was accompanied by a compelling series of Special Projects and FORUM, the fair’s talks programme, curated for the first time by writer and curator Ekow Eshun.
26 SEPTEMBER 2018 / 10 NOVEMBER 2018
Individual exhibition curated by Cristiana Tejo
Tomorrow is another day is an expression that points from a present place to the future looking at the memories and the inheritances of the past, noticing the failures and absences of history and politics and pointing to a hopeful tomorrow, founded in re-imagination. The title of the exhibition also refers to the desire to make architecture that breaks canons in the post-independence moment on the African continent where architecture acquired the ability to awaken utopias and also implied a commitment to democracy, social freedom, producing places of inestimable value. It is, therefore, an attempt to reflect on the reconciliation between what already exists and what has never been and which may one day be something different, between the old and the new, between memory, history and dystopia and ideological utopia.