A OUTRA MÁQUINA DE FAZER ESPANHÓIS (the other machine for making spaniards) solo exhibition of Juan Domingues (VE, 1981) from the novel by Valter Hugo Mãe (AO, 1971) January 29 to April 16, 2022, zet gallery, Braga The first photograph that Juan Domingues (VE, 1981) sent me of works that are part of the… Continue reading
A OUTRA MÁQUINA DE FAZER ESPANHÓIS (the other machine for making spaniards)
ACTUM
ACTUM The “ACTUM – Open Call for Artistic Projects” initiative aims to support artists from the city of Braga, during a time when it is imperative to emphasise culture and promote artistic creation. The 25 artists chosen for this second edition come from different areas, with various creative processes, from painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video,… Continue reading
AMOR EM TEMPOS DE CÓLERA
AMOR EM TEMPOS DE CÓLERA AMOR EM TEMPOS DE CÓLERA (love in times of cholera) is the name of the second exhibition resulting from ‘ACTUM – Open Call for Artistic Projects, a support measure for artistic creation and fruition for artists and cultural agents from Braga, which appeared in the middle of the pandemic, in… Continue reading
ANA MONTEIRO: Layers of the Self
ANA MONTEIRO: Layers of the Self The figurative style and the self-portrait are two of the great particularities that characterise the work of Ana Monteiro (PT, 1990), who justifies the use of these properties due to the ease of the emotional connection with her works, appealing to the capacity of communication, understanding and transformation. Through… Continue reading
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS by Helena Mendes Pereira These experiments were based on the thesis that the structure of the labyrinth was always the same and that, in more general terms and by analogy, from the moment the individual had learned what to do in his life, he would have been able… Continue reading
João Dias
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS João Dias by Helena Mendes Pereira A set of cross-references brings me a coexistence of concepts (perhaps) inseparable from the work of João Dias (b.1983): boldness, intimacy, expansion, and excavation. I recall John Berger (1926-2017) and the “Ways of Seeing”1 revolution of 1972: a set of seven… Continue reading
Martinho Costa
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS Martinho Costa by Helena Mendes Pereira On the day they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at half-past five in the morning to wait for the boat in which the bishop was arriving. 1 These days, while revisiting Gabriel García Márquez (1927-2014), I opened… Continue reading
Henrique Palmeirim Lázaro
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS Henrique Palmeirim Lázaro by Helena Mendes Pereira “I paint, I scratch, I think”, a phrase from another artist, Miguel d’Alte (1954-2007), born in Braga, also an experimentalist and a fighter against creative oppression. Henrique Lázaro (b.1995) was born in Lisbon, curiously, but he has always been from… Continue reading
Carla Gaspar
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS Carla Gaspar The project O Corpo em Mim (The Body in Me) was developed in partnership with the Backstage Dance School, in Braga, and its dancers Rosália Passinhas, Júlio Cerdeira, Inês Barroso and Isabel Almeida. O Corpo em Mim (The Body in Me) consists of a set of… Continue reading
“Behind the Rain Braga” by Christian Baes
A COUPLE OF STRUCTURING AND LIQUID THINGS Christian Baes Behind the Rain Braga The short-sighted relation with the space in the liquid world. Behind the Rain Braga is an invitation to reflect on our relationship with space in the liquid world. In the construction, whose focus between planes forms the myopic image, the encounter with… Continue reading