Group show curated by Cindy Sissokho
"(...) The exhibition explores everyday realities and moments of freedom that people generate within the environments they inhabit. Thinking from the concept of the surrounds by scholar and urbanist AbdouMaliq Simone, the exhibition focuses on what he refers to as the spaces in an ongoing process of reconstruction, preservation, fugitivity and transformation by their inhabitants, whether human or non-human.
Here, the notion of the surrounds also invokes myth as a force of fiction, imagination and ingenious refusals. These refusals take spatial and aesthetic form, enabling the re-narration of histories and the exposure of their visible and invisible infrastructures.
These stories are an homage to the “collective lives of continuous remaking” as a possibility to inhabit our environments with the liberating agency to socialise, to improvise and to thrive. Through raw materials, textures, patterns, imagery, and archives as critical forms, the artists depict moments that oscillates between resistance and existence, tension and joy, acting as a driving force to continue thriving in and with the present. (...)"
Torreão Nascente da Cordoaria Nacional
Belém, Lisbon