-
09.12.2023 – 10.03.2024The Sylvan and Harsh North
What are the meteorological patterns, the myths and stories, the rhythms, colours and shapes, the human and nonhuman inhabitants that make up the Iberian Northwest, in its reality and fiction?Wondering about the rituals and expressive modes of people, animals, plants, elements and minerals, we went looking for the roots, terminations and tentacles of the Iberian Northwest, trying to locate the places where they might reside. In doing so, we considered the past but above all faced the present-future of these concrete and imagined spaces between seas, woods and settlements. The Sylvan and Harsh North is an exhibition that follows roads and lines of intensity, centrifugal forces that take us beyond Porto, towards those supposed margins where permutations erupt, to discover and share the references, stories, words and connections to these places with a long past and an even longer future. Curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso.Curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso. -
Saturday, December 9th at 4pm
Opening: Norte Silvestre Agreste
The Galeria Municipal will open its last exhibition of 2023 with Sylvan Harsh North, a project curated by Filipa Ramos and Juan Luis Toboso featuring the participation of Alejandra Pombo Su, Cem Raios T’abram, Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves, Diego Vites, Judith Adataberna, Lara and Noa Castro Lema, Lois Patiño, Mariana Barrote, Mariana Caló and Francisco Queimadela, Maruja Mallo, Óliver Laxe, Salvador Cidrás, Vicente Blanco and Von Calhau!
To visit until March 10, 2024. -
Saturday, December 9th at 5pm
The Sylvan and Harsh North: Performance by Mouræ (Lois Búa)
Crónica da Cabria is the title of Mouræ's performance, which materialises through a sound collage of different origins, reflecting the links between fantasy and reality, future and past, while pondering the possible conflicts of its idealisation.Based on sound recordings of trades and labours that are gradually disappearing, remixed with sounds from the present, Mouræ follows the reverse journey of the conger eel, which is dried in Cábrias de Muxia (Galicia) and marketed in Calatayud (Castile).This session will be presented in direct relation to the installation by the artist Diego Vites, part of this exhibition. -
Saturday, December 9th at 6pm
The Sylvan and Harsh North: Performance by Lara & Noa Castro Lema
"Birds die and sing once again in favour of poetry. Women are transmuted into birds. The voice has the power to transform beings, for better or for worse."Galician artist duo Lara & Noa Castro Lema will present the performance A las aves, meu amigo, centred on oral tradition and the logics of sharing knowledge through story, music and memory. Their research has investigated these practices through the voice, crossing human and animal sonorities to think about the possibilities of fantasy and connection with the world.This two-voice performance will focus on the myth of the extinct Aurochs and the endangered Capercaillie. The moment accompanies the film that the duo is presenting at the exhibition. -
Wednesday December 13th, from 3pm to 6pm
Exodus walk for schools, with Paralaxe
All interested classes can sign up to take part in this Exodus by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.All routes are carried out on foot.Meeting point to be defined.
Image: Teresa Miranda -
Thursday, December 14, at 7pm
Zoos humanos, ethnic freaks y exhibiciones etnológicas – Conference with Hasan G. López Sanz
This conference will address some of the issues that Spanish philosopher Hasan G. López Sanz has been investigating, such as the complex relationships between exoticism and education, anthropology and colonial memory, restitution and reparation.The presentation will also consider how contemporary art has materialised these ideas, particularly through the work of artists who have deconstructed the colonial thinking that often persists in some of the human sciences and academia."Zoos humanos, ethnic freaks y exhibiciones etnológicas. Una aproximación desde la antropología, la estética y la creación artística contemporánea", published by Hasan Lópes in 2017, was also one of the many references for building the core knowledge of the "Memória de Elefante" axis of Ping! The book, published by the Concreta publishing house, deals with important topics for reflection and debate on these matters, such as the Estado Novo's decision to organise the "First Portuguese Colonial Exhibition" in Porto's Palácio de Cristal Gardens in 1934.Venue:Auditório da Biblioteca Municipal Almeida Garrett
To attend the conference the free ticket must be collected (maximum 2 per person) up to 15 minutes before the event starts. Reservations can be made in advance by emailing galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.
Images: [2]Lurdes Basoli, Eclipse [ongoing project]
[1]Andrés Pachon, La Derrota del Rostro [exhibition view], 2018 (in collaboration with Hasan G. López Sanz)
Hasan G. López Sanz has a PhD in Philosophy. He is a lecturer in Aesthetics and Art Theory at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Valencia, an associate researcher at CRAL (Centre de Recherches sur les Arts et le Langage) in Paris, and a member and director of the research group "Grupo de estudios visuales sobre memoria de la esclavitud, el colonialismo y sus legados", among other projects.His research centres on the image, its practices and public uses, especially in relation to anthropology, aesthetics and contemporary art. Her publications include books such as "Zoos humanos, ethnic freaks y exhibiciones etnológicas. Una aproximación desde la antropología, la estética y la creación artística contemporánea" (Concreta, 2017), "Let's bring blacks home! Colonial imagination and ways of graphically approaching black people in Africa" (1880-1968) (PUV, 2020). -
Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens
Visitas-Pavão to the Gardens
To participate in the Visitas-Pavão, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 pm to 6 pm.Duration: 90 min. -
Exodus for Schools
To participate in the Exodus, all interested groups can register through the email galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt.All routes are carried out on foot.Meeting point to be defined.
Thursday and Friday, 10am-1pm and 2pm-6pm. Duration: 120min -
Saturday, January 6, at 4pm
The Sylvan and Harsh North: Guided visit to the exhibition
Meeting point: Gallery counter.
Admission is free. -
Saturday, February 3, at 4pm
The Sylvan and Harsh North: Guided visit to the exhibition
Meeting point: Gallery counter.
Admission is free. -
Thursday and Friday, February 8th and 9th, at 7pm
The Sylvan and Harsh North: Film programme
More information coming soon. -
Saturday, March 3, at 4pm
The Sylvan and Harsh North: Guided visit to the exhibition
Meeting point: Gallery counter.
Admission is free. -
Saturday, March 9th at 6pm
The Sylvan and Harsh North: Performance by Alejandra Pombo Su
Alejandra Pombo Su's artistic practice moves between the visual, audiovisual and performing arts. Based on dreamlike visions and imaginings, her works represent emotions and imagined figurations as much as concrete people, animals and places, exploring the relationship between the feminine and the animal, the natural and the sensory, the unforeseen, the ineffable and the imagined.In the artist's performance, which will mark the closing of the exhibition, the artist will explore the animal presence through the modulation, vibration and intensity of the voice, as a body that detaches itself from its skin and connects to a non-corporeal, open and undefined place.Venue to be announced soon.
