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Ruins and Fragments
Curator: Beatriz Duarte
Collective exhibition of Ana Rocha, Cristianne Melo, Flora Paim, Lara Teixeira and Martín Hernández Molín
Location: Garagem Avenida (Guimarães, Portugal)
December 06 - December 15, 2023
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Ruins and Fragments presented processes and artistic productions developed from activations of the Arquinho Factory in Guimarães during the first semester of 2023. The curatorial project sought to understand the narratives that this industrial ruin and its traces contain and provoke, considering its interstitial condition between past industrial use and the future rehabilitation project. The artists' responses to this inquiry encompass various languages — found objects, performance records, audio, experimental photography, and writing — primarily showcasing the procedural exhibition of fieldwork conducted in and around the factory. The artistic proposals focus on capturing the entropy of space, experimenting with the heterotopia of its anti-monumentality, and the dual act of inventing and inventorying, including, in some cases, decomposition and forgetting as intrinsic elements in the construction of the artworks.
This project is related to “Arquinho’s Takeovers”
Imagens: Ojima e Beatriz Duarte