Le monde ou rien
Summary
This exhibition celebrates 500 years of the publication of Utopia by Thomas More. The exhibition looks into utopias in the search of the natural, social and political, analyzing the tensions between the ideal and the everyday.
Supported by
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian
University of Porto
Description of project
This exhibition joins the celebration of the 500th anniversary of the publication of Utopia by Thomas More in 1516. Since then, the very word utopia has become a fundamental concept to name the construction of a philosophical thought that challenges the very meaning of history and builds an intangible ideal of perfection and complete harmony. However, while the moral genealogy of the utopia concept is based on an anthropocentric vision of the world, this project is grounded on the realization of the need to activate subjective forms of understanding reality. Utopia becomes, then, the energy that can take us to new ways of experiencing and establishing a relationship with today’s social and political landscape. The idea of an intangible utopia confronts us with a wide range of possible ways to explore the world and the uncertainty of this search brings us closer to sensory and poetic forms inscribed in the margins between fiction and reality.
This group of artworks and artists propose narratives open to different interpretations anchored on the strength of the actions and the power of the objects and their form. The exhibition aims to reflect on the possibility of finding an underground utopia in the common search of the natural, social and political, inviting an analysis of the tensions between the ideal and the everyday.
Aline Biasutto, Mónica de Miranda, Hanne Lippard, Leonor Costa, Hugo Canoilas, Grace Schwindt, André Alves, Andrés Pachón, Diogo Tudela, Daniel Steegmann Mangrané, Susana Gaudêncio, Paulo Osório, Natalia Calderón, Tadeu Almeida Furtado.
Curated by Juan Luis Toboso in collaboration with the Master in Art Studies, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto.
Type of work
Curated group exhibition
Published in
Exhibition Pavilion – Fine Art School University of Porto
Link to web site
http://www.fba.up.pt/2016/07/13/le-mond-ou-rien/
Date
2016-09-30Creator
Alves, André
Keywords
Art
drawing
utopia
political
Publication type
artistic work