Descripción de la Exposición
The exhibition presents a dialogue using the common language of art between two seemingly different cultures, Slovak and Brazilian.
Authors: Lenora de Barros, Juraj Bartoš, Peter Bartoš, Anna Daučíková, Ľubomír Ďurček, Petra Feriancová, Marcius Galan, Július Koller, André Komatsu, Maria Noujaim, Leticia Parente, Marco Paulo Rolla, Jana Želibská.
The exhibition entitled “Lingua franca” presents an intergenerational dialogue between Brazilian and Slovak artists who, against the backdrop of daily life, wrest an openness and poetic reverberation while moving beyond the immense field of the spectacle. These evocative works emerged from the acute urge to relate to their surroundings with simple and subtle gestures and minimal displacements that ramify into social, ecological, historical, political, anthropological and philosophical concerns that are dilated into a time span of more than five decades.
“Lingua franca” alludes to a common poetics spoken by the selected artists, but at the same time emphasizes the impossibility of these connections, not only due to the artists different cultural backgrounds, but also to the fallacy that exists when categorizing or relating said poetics, emphasizing that behind this exercise lies a subjectivity that makes it possible.
The Brazilian artist and activist André Komatsu (São Paulo, 1978) and the Slovak artist and writer Petra Feriancová (Bratislava, 1977) developed a collaborative hybrid-museographic installation ex profeso for this context that will serve as the exhibition backbone and the embodiment of a lingua franca between two cultures; a poetic way to notice connections rather than differences, to increase our sense of empathy and shared humanity.
Tiago de Abreu Pinto, curator: “I’ve got to confess that I have a tendency to perceive meaningful connections between unrelated things. It all began with a small sphere: a table tennis ball. I noticed the obsession of two people: the Slovak artist Július Koller and the Brazilian artist Lenora de Barros. I became interested in their obsession over table tennis. ”
Tiago de Abreu Pinto (Salvador, 1984) is a Brazilian writer and the curator of the featured exhibition. He is the narrator of a story that took place during his inner encounters with artists at different times and places. He guides visitors through the exhibition and invites them in a figurative way to join in a Socratic conversation where all can curiously ask questions, answer each other, or search for new meanings within the artworks.
Exposición. 13 dic de 2024 - 04 may de 2025 / CAAC - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo / Sevilla, España
Formación. 01 oct de 2024 - 04 abr de 2025 / PHotoEspaña / Madrid, España
