In Untitled (N’en Finit Plus), by João Onofre, a teenage girl performs the famous French yé-yé song La Nuit N’en Finit Plus by Petula Clark. From the bottom of a deep ditch dug in the green surface of the grass, Beatriz Mateus sings a capella the confessional lyrics of teenage intonation, which, at the age of 34, Clark lent to Jakie DeShannon’s melody of Needles and Pins. The movement of the camera from the dark earth to the night sky, an impossible panorama loop, acts as a metaphor for the idea of an endless cycle, from a dark night ‘that never ends’, from a latency around which this juvenile underground sorrow allows us to speculate.

COMPLETE CYCLE

15 Oct – 01 Nov 2021

João Onofre, Untitled (N’en Finit Plus), 2010-11

04 Nov – 22 Nov 2021

Lida Abdul, White Horse, 2006

25 Nov – 13 Dec 2021

Pedro Barateiro, The Current Situation, 2015

16 Dec 2021 – 10 Jan 2022

Fernando José Pereira, The man who wanted to collect Time, 2012

This cycle of videos from the Collection explores concepts related to solitude, war and other social and political issues, and is presented over a backdrop of various landscapes and natural settings.

Curators: Patrícia Rosas and Rita Albergaria

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. More info