Lugar Infinito [Infinite Place]
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The second edition of the project ‘Lugar’ [Place] welcomed Fidel Évora as resident artist that, together with the pupils from the Marquesa de Alorna Primary School in Lisbon, reflects on biographic, cultural and social identities and speaks of the revolutions we have yet to realise.
Coordinated by Andreia Dias from the education, mediation and participation department at CAM – Centro de Arte Moderna Gulbenkian, this second edition will take place throughout the 2023/24 school year and involves 142 students from six 3rd and 4th grade classes. Teachers Bruno Fernandes, Catarina Matos, Conceição Ramos, Sílvia Lino, Taís Kabat Holtz and Vera Camacho, the mediators Mariana Faria and Andreia Coutinho, and the artist Fidel Évora, will be actively involved in the design and development of the project which unfolded in fortnightly sessions with the pupils.
Fidel Évora’s research and artistic practice echoes throughout as demonstration of the intense participatory process of debate, reflection and artistic co-creation with the primary school pupils around the places we occupy, make, and desire.
This reflection resulted in the participatory artwork ‘Lugar Infinito’ [Infinite Place], that will be launched on the 26th June in the Gulbenkian Garden, where a conversation with the ‘creators’ [fazedores] of the installation will happen.
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Fidel Évora
Fidel Évora (Cape Verde, 1984) grew up in Barreiro and studied image and communication at ETIC and Motion Graphics at BAU Escola Superior de Disseny in Barcelona. He seeks to cultivate his taste for research and the preservation of artefacts, recovering important memories for collective and personal identity; he creates compositions between the real and the fictitious, creating forgotten dialogues on purpose or unintentionally. In 2021 she took part in the group exhibitions “Linha Imaginária”, at MU.SA Museu de Artes de Sintra, and “de Dentro e Fora – Colectiva de Artistas de Cabo Verde”, at UCCLA Lisboa.
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