How to (talk about) things that don't exist = Como (falar sobre) coisas que não existem

Beschrijving

Tent. Porto, Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serralves, 02-10-2015, 17-01-2015. - Groepstentoonstelling ontstaan naar aanleiding van de Biënnale van São Paulo 2014. - The exhibition's investigation into art's revelatory potential is being reconfigured for the physical, social and cultural context of the city of Porto and Serralves Museum. The selected artworks, from paintings and sculptures to video and installation, distil the ideas of the Brazilian exhibition and focus on how art can alter ways of thinking about the world. Through imagining forms of life and society that are different or do not (yet) exist, the artworks question the authority of religion, history and systems of control and suggest how it could be different. The title of the exhibition is itself in constant change with the mutating verb suggesting some of the many, different ways to experience art as a process of becoming. As well as the works from the Biennial, the presentation at Serralves features a specially curated programme of discussions, the PROGRAMME IN TIME, an extensive public programme developed by the Biennial's team of curators together with the Education Department of the Serralves Museum. This programme will unfold at three major moments and is founded on an exhaustive research carried out by the Biennial's curators in Porto and Lisbon, where they met with young artists, activists and researchers and visited artist-run spaces, universities and art cooperatives