XXI Cerveira International Art Biennial
The 42 years of the Cerveira International Art Biennial have the Diversity-Research. The Complex Space of Communication Through Art as its leitmotif. The intent is to question culture as a form of knowledge that allows a better quality of life. The event relie
s on a model that began in 1978, with multiple activities and the participation of different audiences, under great artistic plurality.
António Reis in Poemas Quotidianos (1967): “I shall enter the houses/ as well/ Like the silence”. The XXI Biennial opens its doors, awarding prizes to works made by various artists who reflect on Portuguese culture and contemporaneity. We highlight Alexandre Delmar’s A fala das cabras e dos pastores (2018-19) (Oporto, 1982), a video with a rhythmic montage, where we see and hear shepherds calling their flock, thus creating music patterns, whilst recalling the first scene of the renowned film by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro Trás-os-Montes (1976). Nelson Miranda (Portugal, 1979) presents Fundação Lar do Emigrante Português no Mundo (2019), a research project on the ruins of the headquarters of the institution mentioned in the title, built during the 80s by a Venezuelan emigrant in the north of the country. The photographs show a site currently abandoned, with traces of the occupation of neo-Nazi groups. It allows one to reflect on emigration, derelict spaces and extreme political-social theories. Finally, Rafael Ibarra (Braga, Portugal) exhibits a triptych of photographs, showing a melancholic, bucolic and poetic point of view, underlined by the visual poem that completes the piece.
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