18 May 2022
Carlos Bunga, Homeless #4, 2021, Acrylic on chromogenic color print, 30 x 40 cm. Courtesy: Vera Cortês Gallery.
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The exhibition was intended to be as open-ended as the sky, a shared space of ominous and transcendent beauty that is ever-shifting, which compels new and varying reflections below. Similarly, several artworks in the exhibition slowly transformed before the viewer, as well as through active engagement. Other artworks were adapted locally or had been materialised from moments of profound physical, political, social and art historical turns.
Drawing on the visuals of celebration—balloons, flowers, marquees, dresses, music, dancing and gifts—the exhibition looked to the ritual of preparing for an event and to the elation and anticipation that builds in the process, but that inevitably deflates when plans are altered and merriment winds down, returning to a state of longing.
Artists: Robyn Brentano & Andrew Horn, Carlos Bunga, Spencer Finch, General Idea, Kapwani Kiwanga, Eric N. Mack, Joseph del Pesco and Johnny Pootoogook.
Curator: Rui Mateus Amaral
2022. Lisboa, Portugal.
