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• 7 min

The body always speaks first

Fernão Cruz writes about the exhibition 'Biting Dust', analysing the works he conceived for this project, created for the Gulbenkian Foundation.

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• 5 min

Between spaces: a journey through the life and work of Nadir Afonso

The researcher and curator Maria do Mar Fazenda writes about the artist's life and work and about the exhibition dedicated to him at MACNA.

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• 2 min

Zulmiro de Carvalho

The work 'Untitled', by Zulmiro de Carvalho, an aluminium sculpture, formed of four elements, was acquired for the CAM Collection in 2019.

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Untitled, by Bruno Cidra

In 2020, CAM acquired 'Untitled', by Bruno Cidra, a large-scale sculpture with an iron structure that includes several layers of paper sheets.

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Pedro Valdez Cardoso donates work to the CAM

Donated by the artist Pedro Valdez Cardoso, the installation 'Livro de Actos' [Book of Acts] is now part of the CAM Collection.

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Altina Martins in the CAM Collection

In 2020, the CAM acquired the tapestry 'Tempo – Infância, Adolescência, Maturidade' by Maria Altina Martins. The Portuguese artist has been working on this kind of piece from the 1960s to the present day, frequently challenging the boundaries between tapestry and sculpture.

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• 5 min

Taking another look at Africa

The historian Cláudia Lopes reflects on the process of decolonisation of thought, highlighting several artists and works which deal with the colonial past and its consequences.

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• 3 min

Works by Fayga Ostrower in the CAM

Fayga Ostrower was a Brazilian artist born in Poland. In 2020, the Fayga Ostrower Institute donated to the Gulbenkian Foundation five of the artist’s works, which joined the two abstract woodcuts in the CAM Collection.

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Film by Yto Barrada joins the CAM Collection

'Tree Identification for Beginners' (2017), by Yto Barrada, was acquired for the CAM Collection in 2020, having been shown in the exhibition 'Moi je suis la langue et vous êtes les dents', in the Project Space, in 2019.

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‘Luiz Vaz 73’ in the CAM Collection

On 2 June, CAM joined in the celebrations of the centenary of Ernesto de Sousa's birth (1921-1988) with the presentation of 'Luiz Vaz 73', marking the integration of the mixed-media work into the Collection in 2019.

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• 9 min

Duplicata

An imaginary exhibition which brings together works from the CAM Collection that can be read as having a dual structure, a sharing, a division, replication or form of symmetry.

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• 2 min

‘Rainbow’ by Augusto Alves da Silva comes to the CAM

The CAM collection acquired a new photograph by Augusto Alves da Silva, nominated for the BES PHOTO 2006 award.

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• 4 min

Around the House(s)

A reflection on the current reality of lockdown, on the role of the home and on the idea of human presence/absence.

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• 1 min

‘Posta’ [chop]

The artist Rosa Carvalho focuses on themes of everyday life, food and eating, namely meat, at its rawest.

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• 3 min

Study for an escape

The artist Nuno Sousa Vieira reflects on the notion of escape, explaining how this concept influenced his creative process in this study.

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• 3 min

‘Rubber, Doughnut and Piñata’ by Eugénia Mussa

The artist Eugénia Mussa contextualises her relationship with intense colour and the role it has played in her work.

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• 7 min

The modern African art of Malangatana

Learn about the artistic career of Malangatana, a great connoisseur of both ancestral African cultures and Western culture.

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• 3 min

Strange Times

In the context of the pandemic and restrictions, we highlight works by artists that evoke atypical scenarios we have all experienced.

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• 11 min

(Re)Visionary Navigations of Cultural Memory

Sculptor and teacher Sharon Lubkemann Allen reflects on Ângela Ferreira's installations about forms and places, revealing how they build bridges between different cultures.

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• 4 min

Cinema Karl Marx, Luanda

Mónica de Miranda's project ‘Panorama’ focuses on themes such as ‘urban archaeology and personal geographies’ and notions of identity, memory and diaspora.

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• 3 min

Pictures for a time of self-isolation

Penelope Curtis chooses a pair of portraits that offer an interesting contrast, in certain aspects very similar, despite the fact that they are almost two centuries apart.

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• 2 min

Maria Gabriel

Over several years, the artist's work has reflected on the migrant experiences of her family and of others close to her.

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David de Almeida

David de Almeida transforms written text (Fernão Mendes Pinto's 'Peregrinação') into a visual composition, an attempt at a visual transcription of the journey as a theme.

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Jorge Pinheiro

Find various applications of the famous 'Fibonacci Sequence' in the works of Jorge Pinheiro, some of which belong to the CAM Collection.