(part of the exhibition Palácio da Memória) Upon entering the Amphitheatre of the Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, we come across a huge bamboo scaffolding structure that houses neon light panels that cover the entire wall. Fluorescent tubes connect either vertically or horizontal...
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(part of the exhibition Palácio da Memória) Upon entering the Amphitheatre of the Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon, we come across a huge bamboo scaffolding structure that houses neon light panels that cover the entire wall. Fluorescent tubes connect either vertically or horizontally, drawing visual poems with no greater apparent relation than the aluminum trace. At one point it reads "There is no understanding without images", a Portuguese adaptation of the Latin phrase Non est intelligere sine phantasmate by Saint Thomas Aquinas in his compendium Suma Contra os Gentios: "Indeed, the human intellect, although it can be known, however, the first beginning of knowledge draws from the outside, because there is no intellect without ghosts,[...]".