no. 23 Editorial
Moodboard

ISSN · 2183-5527

Visual Essay + Author in residence

7 Portraits

7 Portraits

João Fonte Santa

VHS, 29' By João Fonte Santa, assisted by António Caramelo The video Sete Retratos was created for the exhibition Mundo de Aventuras, curated by José Alberto Ferreira, and features 7 video portraits, …

7 Portraits

B, Y, R

Visual Essay

B, Y, R

Henrique Biatto

Água Viva

Visual Essay

Água Viva

Lander Patrick, Gonçalo Marques, José Soares

Through the longest path

Visual Essay

Through the longest path

Margarida Rodrigues (MAR)

Working with mountains is easy

Article

Working with mountains is easy

Isadora Alves

Process Of Unframability

Sound Essay

Process Of Unframability

Frantz Loriot

Drowned, in the shame of light

Visual Essay

Drowned, in the shame of light

Isabela Abate & João Castro

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Visual Essay

Workbook on the adaptation of the play The Man Outside (1947)

Pedro Paiva

Sightings

Visual Essay

Sightings

Francisco Novais

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

Visual Essay

HALF A STEP FROM HOME

António Olaio

Misfits

Visual Essay

Misfits

Fabrizio Matos

Out Of Here

Sound Essay

Out Of Here

Quatroconnection (Carla Santana)

Weiße Rose

Visual Essay + Author in residence

Weiße Rose

João Fonte Santa

it was just drained, drained

Sound Essay

it was just drained, drained

André Hencleeday

Lavagem

Visual Essay

Lavagem

João Jacinto

XXX

Visual Essay + Author in residence

XXX

João Fonte Santa

The hand with no specialty

Visual Essay

The hand with no specialty

Carolina Lino

Wrong Wrong n.23

Misfits

Visual Essay 29.06.2018

Conversation Piece

Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece I. A», 2017. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece I. B», 2017. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece I. C», 2017. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece I. D», 2017. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece II. 17», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece II. 20», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece II. 21», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece II. 22», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece III», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece IV. 1», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece IV. 2», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece IV. 3», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

Maria José Cavaco, «Conversation Piece IV. 4», 2018. © Maria José Cavaco

The Conversation Piece series presently includes four groups of drawings on paper. The unifying idea of the project, which is also its starting point, is the representation of gardens in which a diegetic progression is visible through the displacement of the point of view. The depiction of the garden is thought of as the context provided for the conversation that unfolds in front of the work, when it is observed. But before all, it is the result of a silent dialogue with the garden, its space, its slight movements and its imperceptible dynamic.

Referring to the genre of the group portraits, popular in the eighteenth century, in which the figures are represented interacting in informal situations, often in gardens, this new project brings together two aspects developed in previous projects: on the one hand, the integration of a diegetic structure, that is to say the presupposition that the verbal discourses it triggers are also part of the project; and on the other hand, the assumption that it is through these discourses that an orientation or a characterization of what is being experienced in our relationship with the objects can be processed. The formal devices employed in this new project thus focus the action of the context as a characterizing element. The drawings that integrate it provide the context for the construction of a discourse, which, in turn, contextualizes the observation of the drawings. This idea of the importance of the context is formally reinforced by exploring, in the images, the relation of the marks / traces that fill the support, suggesting with this contextualization some kind of figuration.

The images of the four groups are constructed by either re-inscription processes on previously created images or by erasure and re-inscription, hence working as palimpsests.

Translation KS

My Name is Nobody

Nuno Miguel Proença + Katherine Sirois

Chromatic Study for Blue