O Olhar da Sibila | The Sibyl’s Gaze Corporalidade e Transfiguração | Corporeality and Transfiguration

Synopsis

The exhibition O Olhar da Sibila - Corporalidade e Transfiguração (The Sibyl’s Gaze - Corporeality and Transfiguration) is a project that brings together works from six institutional collections. As a cultural proposal that brings together not only the collections, but essentially the interaction between the institutions, the exhibition is the result of an idea born in the context of a conference that took place in November 2015 at the Fundação Oriente, where the exhibition was held.

The conference, organised by the PLMJ Foundation under the theme Corporate Art Collections, aimed to provide a comprehensive approach to this culturally oriented business phenomenon, which includes modern and contemporary art collections.

The diversity of these collections, in terms of the number of works, the historical context, in the transition from modern to contemporary, and also their geographical references, opened up a field of possibilities for cross-referencing artistic proposals over a period of about a century, revealed in different fields such as painting, drawing, tapestry, sculpture, installation, photography, video, and also a selection of artist’s books that are part of collaborative projects.

Curator

João Silvério