THE OTHER MACHINE FOR MAKING SPANIARDS
Collection curated by Helena Mendes Pereira
In A OUTRA MÁQUINA DE FAZER ESPANHÓIS (the other machine for making spaniards) we want to reflect on what it means to be old. On the daily routines of old age amidst the 21st century. The intensity and genius of the novel “a máquina de fazer espanhóis” (the machine for making spaniards) question us about this generational lag and about how the word abandonment has become part of the end of life of those who have dedicated their lives to others and possess knowledge that is not always found in books or on Google. In 2021, the novel merited a re-edition, and our visual artist Juan Domingues was invited to produce a set of works whose reproduction would illustrate the re-edition.