Sofia Lanusse
Opening Lisboa
Coming soon
Curators :
As Formas do Oceano
How many forms does the saltwater that makes up the Atlantic Ocean have? What happens when artists from different Atlantic ports take up space at the heart of the city of Lisbon?
These and other questions are among the many that arise from the presence of a collection of galleries from the various Africas, Americas, and Europes.
What the shapes of the ocean seem to reveal is an artistic production of great sophistication which, since its inception, has flirted with a dimension that transcends national borders and expands transnationally, bringing together experiences that affirm the centrality of Black poetics in the international contemporary art scene.
During Arco Lisboa, players from different parts of the global art world will have the opportunity to deepen their relationship with a kind of artistic production that is inevitably born with the language and tongue of the ocean—an ocean that, in many ways, invented the Western modern experience. That this should happen from Portugal is yet another piece of evidence that the forms of the ocean are both fierce and poetic.
Bringing together artists and galleries that connect the idea of Black America to a broader perspective of the world’s Atlantic dimension is one of the curatorial aims that helps us understand the different ways in which the poetic experience of Black people is crafted. There are, undoubtedly, artistic practices of extreme rigour, presented here not only through their affinities but also through their distinctiveness.
This curatorship stems from a dialogue between two curators and seeks to explore these (dis)connections in the field of visual arts—poetic exchanges between African, Afro-diasporic, and Brazilian artists. It is conceived with an expanded view of Afro-Atlantic relations, not confined merely by territory or geography.
Paula Nascimento & Igor Simões
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