Idioma Comum | Common Language Artists from the CPLP in the collection of the PLMJ Foundation

Synopsis

The strategy adopted by the PLMJ Foundation in building up the collection for the Community of Portuguese Language Countries (CPLP) focuses first and foremost on young creators. The 15 artists participating in Idioma Comum (Common Language), representative of the current collection, share a contemporary language characterised above all by a cosmopolitan vision of the world, rather than one based exclusively on the proto-secretism of ethnic traditions.

The political, economic and cultural contexts of their countries underpin the reflections and discourses of these young creators, both of whom are informed by a daily life full of contradictions between ancestral symbolic systems and modern values. The perspective with which these artists approach local issues is inspired by the global social order, whose representations of the Other in a post-colonial setting escape the fascination with the exotic that anchored the practices of previous generations of artists.

The title of this exhibition therefore refers to the artistic language shared by the young creators of the CPLP, and it is from the stylistic communion of this new art that the potential of the PLMJ Foundation project is born.

Curator

Miguel Amado