Territórios: da liberdade e da diversidade | Territories: of Freedom and Diversity

Synopsis

The exhibition Territories: of Freedom and Diversity is based on the publication of the digital book Territories - Identity and Diversity in Contemporary Lusophone Art. It is organised as a map in the making, a construction based on sites of representation, coexistence and language crossing. The selection of artists from the PLMJ Foundation’s collection and their works are presented as a drawing of a plural geography in various media, which, in each of the artists represented, confronts us with various issues such as identity, gender, the condition of women, the transitory reality of political systems, and also the memories of this transition, which are constantly being updated.

This itinerary, located in the city of Berlin, proposes a sketch of contemporaneity that is expected to be incomplete, due to the work and action that each artist develops at different latitudes of their references and questions, sometimes self-referential and subjective, but determined by experiences and reflections that reconfigure the collective imaginary and how this can be a challenge to universal and perhaps generalist thinking. In each work we see visions and concerns that, while universal, maintain their identity and cultural diversity in a broader spectrum that develops prospectively, with an impact on collective memory, but which leave us with a challenge: the stories and histories that are also the subject of this work of memory in the experiences inherited through family or epistolary means, and which are reconfigured in the experience of the world that the artists propose to us.

Curator

João Silvério