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 21.12.2022

DRAWING (cane field 289)

Edgar Massul + Angelo Gonçalves

Desenho (canavial 289), 2022. Canas e cordel de sisal. Dimensões variáveis

Construction process of the «Drawing (cane field 289)»
With the collaboration of Patricia Serrão

This project is under development on the land next to 289’s space association, located at Pontes de Marchil, in Faro.

The becoming of drawing

Edgar Massul has had a conversation with nature for a long time. Be it rivers or inlets, estuaries, parks or the sea, the artist transforms the material from these places into art. There is even a beautiful series of works made with grape dregs, which, over time, were transformed into ash paintings. The work carried out in collaboration with Angelo Gonçalves on the sugarcane field of the cultural space 289, in Faro, is an exercise or, better said, a «work in progress», because of a drawing in the landscape made with canes from the site, the idea is that this gesture can lead to the construction of a shelter. In other words, what has already been done can be seen as a drawing becoming architecture or the cane field as the foundation of a reflection on the relationship between man and nature.

An utopian, revolutionary, architect can be summoned here: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, who, in 1804, published the treatise L’Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l’art, des mœurs et de la legislation. In that book, on plate 33, entitled «O Abrigo do pobre» (The poor man’s shelter), a naked man can be seen sitting in the shade of a tree, on a deserted island. From that place, the human figure observes the gods gathered in an opening in a cloudy sky, from which rays of sunlight come out. In the commentary on this engraving, Ledoux considers that in comparison with the poor man, the rich man has nothing to match. The former should be given, through the action of the architect, access to surplus assets.

The work of Edgar Massul and Angelo Gonçalves respects this principle: that of minimal intervention in nature using it for human purposes, in this case a temporary shelter, which will come to be, for protection of the body or contemplation of the universe.

Óscar Faria

Author in residence

The Hanged Woman

Tânia Carvalho

Alchemizing The Damage

Cecília Costa + Leonor Nazaré