From September until January, a shipping container located in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation's garden will play host to a cycle of films from the CAM Collection, which is divided into three different parts.
In a shipping container installed in the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s garden, you can view “Surrendering after Hamish” (2004) by Bruno Pacheco. From a mountainous and arid horizon line, a tiny human being appears and starts to descend towards the valley, a shadow that disappears at times, but keeps re-emerging. We realise that the figure’s hands are held behind its head, in a signal of surrender. The title suggests the kind of surrender we would associate with Hamish Fulton, the English artist who established walking as an art form, photographing and noting reflections and experiences as he walked. The surrender is literal, in the first instance, staged and represented; it is metaphorical, in the second, signifying a reference to another artist; it is ironic in the third, demystifying, trivialising or simply incorporating it with disconcerting simplicity.
Curator: Leonor Nazaré
Cycle of films: Is space real?
The experience and instinctive interpretation of the spaces that each of us develops – spaces we inhabit, pass through or visit – is far less objective than we might first think: it results from a point of view and an inner disposition and purpose. The three moments of this cycle of films from the CAM Collection take us from real spaces in the Foundation, seen with a new and unexpected look, to spaces of assumed reverie and strangeness, through ways of fictionalising and narrating immersion in a natural space.
CAM IN MOTION
CAM in Motion is an ‘outdoor’ programme that brings together a series of site-specific interventions by artists and exhibitions with works from the Collection in different spaces in the city of Lisbon and its surroundings.
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