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Contemporâneos Extemporâneos

Curatorship • 2021, Porto, Exhibition
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Contemporâneos Extemporâneos

“In the reflection of the word time the confidence in the straight line is the guarantor that hides the digression. It may be in the hope for the infinity of this line that the trajectory of escape lies, and perhaps this is the storytelling component of the problems that cause you discomfort. To this indeterminacy belongs what is truly of its time and the society that welcomes it, but never in a perfect coincidence with it. The universe of contemporary interpretation presents a double bond that starts from the current context and then moves to an anachronism. It perceives its time, apprehends it, and becomes inactive. This is not the case of a discourse on genius, because it is not about being ahead of time. What keeps the current of creation going is a verbal connection of the word time to the word discomfort.
It is extemporaneous, therefore. It is one that is embedded in a time and at the same time questions it. It is, therefore, contemporary. It is he who stares at his time to draw from it the opposite of the ebb that prevents him from creating in the form of repetition ( time of space), of standstill (time of matter), of narration (time of the word), and of conservation (time of the story).”

Curator

Andreia Garcia

Commissioners

Miguel von Hafe Pérez (Situação 21)

Artists

Ana Vidigal, António Olaio, Avelino Sa, Bosco Sodi, Cristina Massena, Cristina Mateus, Daniel Barroca, Filipe Cortez, Hernâni Reis Baptista, Joao Louro, Jorge Perianes, Luísa Salvador, Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela, Gerardo Burmester, Inês Teles, Teresa Esgaio, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Pedro Huet, Rita Senra

Design

Studiobruto

Organization

Câmara Municipal do Porto, Situação 21 (Galeria Nuno Centeno, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Galeria Presença, QuadradoAzul, KUBIKGALLERY)
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