Fri 10 Sept
|MEIAC
EXHIBITION: THE EMPIRE OF FICTION
ARTISTS: Daniel Barroca / Filipa César / Manuel Botelho / Paulo Mendes / Susana de Sousa Dias CURATOR: Ana Catarina Pinho
Time and Place
10 Sept 2021, 12:00 – 27 Oct 2021, 13:12
MEIAC, C. Museo, Badajoz, Espanha
About this session
The Empire of Fiction emerges as the final output of the research project and book Reframing the Archive.
It explores the fictional layers of the iconographic construction of the Portuguese colonial empire, while rethinking, at the same time, the determining role that technical images plays in the perception of reality. Through the work of five contemporary artists, this exhibition questions the imperial legacies by looking at issues that the images invoke, exposing the fabrication of narratives that supported specific nationalist ideologies, and thus raising the silences and specters from that period that still emerge in the present.
10 SET - 31 DEC 2021
Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art — LINK
ARTISTS
DANIEL BARROCA
FILIPA CÉSAR
MANUEL BOTELHO
PAULO MENDES
SUSANA DE SOUSA DIAS
CURATOR
ANA CATARINA PINHO