O sentido da vida é só cantar

Taking as its motto the title of an anthology of poems by António Barahona (PT, 1939), one of the greatest poets in the Portuguese language, "The meaning of life is to sing" is a group exhibition featuring works by Alexandra de Pinho, Filipa Leal, Jorge Feijão, Mafalda Veiga, Marta Bernardes and Zélia Mendonça. Based on the research undertaken by the poet Stéphane Mallarmé (FR, 1842-1898) in the last decades of the 19th century regarding the power/role of chance in the creative process and the sound and visual implosion of the printed word, this exhibition brings together a group of artists whose work is part of a tradition of orality. The organization of this exhibition will coincide with the commemoration of three milestones: 100 years of the Surrealist Manifesto, 50 years of the Carnation Revolution, 10 years of zet gallery. It was, therefore, imperative to expand zet gallery to other ways of seeing and allowing other readings, other hypotheses, and it is in this sense that the invitation to Nuno Faria (PT, 1971) for curatorship arises.