In “Observatório de tangentes”, Valter Ventura departs from the historical figure Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) and his 1882 invention, the Fusil photographique. By recovering an object from the past that itself represents a cultural intersection, Ventura proposes to examine the “photographic” within its multiple overlapping circumstances (technological, philosophical, aesthetic and communicational), pursuing in the origins of photography and its various devices the hidden genesis of the identity crisis that photography undergoes today.
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entry: General ConditionsObservatório de tangentes
Valter Ventura
2017-02-17
2017-05-07
On Exhibition
The Feminist Aquaflux Submarine
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Curatorship: Gaudêncio Fidelis
The work was conceived as a repository of ideas and concepts, as a platform for sensorial experimentation
Night for Day, 2020
EMILY WARDILL
2024-04-19
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This is a work of enormous rigor and cinematographic quality, which expertly and dialectically explores Portugal's recent history, contributing to the urgent and incessant search for the meaning of democracy and freedom