LOOPS.EXPANDED
MNAC and Duplacena are proud to present for the
9th year an exhibition dedicated to the loop as a seminal form of the moving
image. Loops.Expanded 2023-2024 edition in Portugal features six works selected
through its international open call. From poetry to artists' formal and
philosophical viewpoints, this selection deconstructs and reconstructs on this
essential form of the moving image. Opening the cycle, in Duplacena77 gallery,
is in search of Averróis, where Portuguese João Cristóvão Leitão weaves a majestic
construction about the circularity of memory. In a second room, two short works
are juxtaposed: THE DUCHAMP MANIFESTO (“Besides, it is always the others who
die”), by Spaniard Fermín Díez de Ulzurrun, a cautionary tale of causes and
consequences of deep fake; and the pandemic Notebook of the Plague - a critical
and intimate view by Terry Berkowitz, a North American video artist active
since the 1970s. At the MNAC, three works will be shown consecutively. The
first is the iconic experimental videoart work 0778, by Brazilian Marcellvs L.,
a poem operating from the transition from analog magnetic to digital language
in a long shot that jiggles with time, space and perception. In Chantier
(2023), French artist Cyril Galmiche explores his ideas of simultaneity,
superimposition and objective relativization of reality, by choreographing over
2h30 the movements of a construction site. And Blind Spot by Portuguese artist
Helena Ferreira, is an installation that plays with the materiality of light
and the possibility of considering images in and out of focus as the most
paradoxical of loops.
Alisson Avila and Irit Batsry

Multipurpose
entry: General Conditions2023.2024
2024-02-25
2024-03-10
On Exhibition
ALDEBARAN FALLEN TO THE GROUND
2025-03-13
2025-06-22
Aldebaran Fallen to the Ground is a series of shaped paintings, with irregular, organic contours. The intensity and incidence of light intrude on the viewing of those (most of them) faces, painted in oil pastels.
Rangefinder
INTERSECTED IMAGES
2025-03-06
2025-04-06
Curatorship: Lúcia Saldanha
José Quaresma and Tiago Batista interconnect their languages and plastic domains using two intersecting image production mechanisms: Carlos Relvas' Stereoscope and the Rangefinder.
Partnership
2024-12-12
2025-04-20
Curatorship: Ana Rito
MEANWHILE