(Estar vivo é o contrário de estar morto)
October 5–November 17, 2019
Rua D. Manuel II (Jardins do Palácio de Cristal)
4050-346 Porto
Portugal
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 10am–6pm
T +351 22 507 3305
galeriamunicipal@agoraporto.pt
Opening: October 5, 5pm
Curated by
Guilherme Blanc
Luísa Saraiva
Artists
Sophia Al-Maria / Cao Fei / Julia Gruner / HARTMANNMUELLER / Eva Meyer-Keller / Renato Leotta / Pedro Magalhães / Rita Nátálio & João dos Santos Martins / Mumtazz / Calixto Neto / Damián Ortega / Musa paradisiaca / Gabriel Rico / Gabriel Sierra / Karlheinz Stockhausen / Bergado/Terebentina / Pedro Tudela
Estar vivo é o contrário de estar morto stages a space for reflection about the urgent need to question different modes of action that constrain nature and the economic and cultural value that we attribute to multiple terrestrial balances.
Based on a collection of pictorial, filmic and performative works, the exhibition aims to explore, and parody, new forms of expression that break with the human/non-human dichotomy, processes of reinterpretation of subjectivities and situations that discuss the right to exist.
Between the absurd and the ordinary, the plausible and implausible, this exhibition places into perspective the need to revaluate the vulnerable and precarious status of the planet’s inhabitants, in the context of contemporary social and economic practices – without overlooking artistic practices and, paradoxically, the fact that such practises may be in collusion with consumption models that undermine a sense of natural well-being.
Performances featured in the exhibition
October 5, 6pm
In Freundschaft
Karlheinz Stockhausen
by Pedro Silva
October 7, 7:30pm
DEATH IS CERTAIN
Eva Meyer-Keller
October 19, 9:30pm
in noT
HARTMANNMUELLER
October 26, 4:30pm
In Freundschaft
Karlheinz Stockhausen
by Pedro Silva
November 4, 7pm
oh!rage
Calixto Neto
As part of Fórum do Futuro 2019
November 14, 7:30pm
Antropocenas
Rita Natálio & João dos Santos Martins
November 16, 4:30pm
In Freundschaft
Karlheinz Stockhausen
by Pedro Silva
