Maria Trabulo: Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente

An exhibition by
Maria Trabulo

With the artists
Abbas Akhavan, Ana Kun, Bahman Kiarostami, Dora García, Flaka Haliti, Jeremiah Day, Loukia Alavanou, Melvin Moti, Pilvi Takala

Curated by
Pieternel Vermoortel

The possibility of making a revolution today, in light of the transformations to participation in the public space, is one of the main topics in Maria Trabulo’s artistic practice and the starting point for this exhibition developed with the curator Pieternel Vermoortel at the invitation of Galeria Municipal.

Desertado. Algo que aconteceu pode acontecer novamente [Deserted. Something that happened may happen again] emerged from the challenge proposed to the artist to think about and discuss the place of fiction and shared histories in today’s social and political constructions. Assembling several perspectives of thought and artistic proposals, which will meet, cross and inhabit the installation created by Maria Trabulo in collaboration with Pieternel Vermoortel, the exhibition reflects on what might be the place and action of the artist in our evolving political landscape. How can we understand social and political participation through art, and how can art partake in the public debate? In this environment, an act of resistance might also require some fiction.

The exhibition features:

June 8, 5pm
Exhibition presentation  
Maria Trabulo, Pieternel Vermoortel

June 15, 5pm
Conversation
Ana Kun, Maria Trabulo

June 15, 6pm
Screening 
Statues of Tehran
Documentary by Bahman Kiarostami

June 26, 7pm
Performance
The chair remains empty / But the place is set
Jeremiah Day
Followed by conversation with
Maria Trabulo

July 13, 6pm
Dora García
in conversation with
Claire Bishop, Nuno Crespo
as part of Times of Contemporaneity 2 – Decolonizing Culture
(Colectivos Pláka)
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Reading
The Assembly in the Desert