PORTALS OF TIME

Group exhibition: Ana Malta | Fidel Évora | Inês Teles | Marcio Carvalho | Pedro Gramaxo | Petra.Preta | Raquel Belli
13.04 - 13.07.2024​
Underdogs Gallery - Former Lisnave Shipyards

This exhibition proposes a friendly dialogue between photographs selected by Alfredo Cunha and seven artists: Ana Malta, Fidel Évora, Inês Teles, Márcio Carvalho, Pedro Gramaxo, Petra.Preta, Raquel Belli – seven artists from the first generation who did not live through the 25th of April in person but who grew up with the event in the collective consciousness. They lived what came after, growing up in a free Portugal thanks to this date.
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The artists were invited to choose, reflect on, and dialogue with each of Alfredo Cunha’s images, inviting visitors to enter this time portal and offering a new and personal reading of these images from the past. Each of the monumental works commissioned for the exhibition conveys a mixture of emotions. From hope for a better future, through the importance of collective action, communication, and solidarity, to freedom. But also exclusion, the demystification of discourse, the absence, sometimes, of learning that leads to an obvious step backwards.
The photographer and the artists invite us to question the event, but above all to question time and its impact on our actions, our discourse, and our social relations.

 

GROUP EXHIBITION DEVELOPED BY
@underdogs_gallery
@cmalmada.

 

CURATED BY
@paulinefoessel

 

CULTURAL PROGRAMME
@festivaliminente