| | | | | | | | | Maria Oliveira 2018 | | | The Ci.CLO Bienal Fotografia do Porto 2019 | | | 11 curators // 53 artists // 16 venues // 8 workshops //
1 symposium // 1 publication // social events // | | | | | | | 16 May – 2 July 2019 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | © Mandy Barker | | | | | | From 16 May to 2 July, the city of Porto will host the first edition of Ci.CLO Bienal Fotografia do Porto. The Bienal supports innovative approaches to visual representation that contribute to a greater critical awareness of the ecological and social vulnerabilities we face. Ci.CLO develops a continuous research and experimentation in collaboration with artists, questioning its own methodologies and proposing narratives, both utopian and dystopian, motivated by cultural and environmental changes.
ADAPTATION AND TRANSITION, the title of the first Ci.CLO Bienal Fotografia do Porto, suggests a dialogic relationship marked by social and environmental crisis. Each era can be characterised in how collective expectations and fears are managed. History tells us that attempts to react are based on scientific and technological development, together with an appeal for awareness, rational thinking and greater spirituality. Concerns related to environmental and ecological changes has emerged in the last 50 years. Narratives surrounding conflicts between culture and nature, which determine our survival and stability on the planet, have gained increasingly more space and consistency. This century is at a critical point. Survival is discussed in terms of imminent risk and emergency. | | | | | | | | | | CRI Distrabution, Omugo Refugee Settlement, Uganda, (2017). © Lena Dobrowolska & Teo Ormond-Skeaping | | | | | | How can artistic mobilisations function in this time of great contradiction? There is a need to critique global governance that continues to promote ecologically unsustainable strategies. How can we diagnose this "crisis of our time" beyond the pessimism that has created a state of global passivity? What is the "response-ability" we want to encourage?
Under the artistic direction of Virgílio Ferreira, the Bienal is supported by Direcção Geral das Artes and Porto Municipality as well as international reference partners such as the Europa-Ásia Foundation and Triennial of Photography Hamburg.
Ci.CLO Bienal offers a program of nuclear expositions and satellite projects with works by 53 national and international artists is exhibited in 16 historical, cultural and artistic institutions throughout the city of Porto. Along with the artists, 11 curators were invited to develop mostly unpublished projects by national and international artists: Virgílio Ferreira, Krzysztof Candrowicz, Diogo Bento, Eduarda Neves, António Rodrigues, Miguel Paiva, Luísa Fragoso, Susana Lourenço Marques, José Maia, Pedro Leão Neto, and Pablo Berástegui Lozano. | | | | | | | | | | © Rica Castro Neves & Daniel Moreira | | | ADAPTATION AND TRANSITION
Curator: Virgílio Ferreira
Diogo Bento » Rita Castro Neves & Daniel Moreira » Jayne Dyer » Constanze Flamme » João Gigante » Lisa Hoffmann » Maria Pia Oliveira » Cláudio Reis »
At Jardins do Palácio de Cristal, from May 16th to July 2nd
Virgílio Ferreira is the curator of Adaptation and Transition, an exhibition arising from the artistic creation programme developed under the scope of the Ci.CLO Bienal de Fotografia do Porto. The artists were challenged to create new projects specifically for the Palácio de Cristal gardens. The curatorial proposal aims to contribute to the social-ecological debate backed by the urgency to develop new forms of human-nature relationships that support the stability of the environment and biodiversity. The artists address ecological issues from different perspectives, whether spiritual, social or political. Various site-specific installations distributed throughout the gardens and the Carlos Alberto chapel include photography, sound and video, with diverse objects and plants. They form a rhizomatic aesthetic field. The experience is not meant to be ideal or definitive, but an invitation to establish other levels of interconnectivity; new possibilities of meaning that naturally remain open. | | | | | | | | | | © Lucas Foglia | | | STORIES ON EARTHLY SURVIVAL
Curator: Krysztof Candrowicz; co-curator: Emma Bowkett
Mandy Barker » Ewa Ciechanowska & Artur Urbanski » Filippo Menichetti & Martin Errichiello » Lucas Foglia » Katrin Koenning » Sarker Protick » Claudius Schulze »
At Centro Português de Fotografia, from May 16th to June 30th
Krzysztof Candrowicz, artistic director of the Triennial of Photography Hamburg, has curated the exhibition Stories on Earthly Survival at Centro de Português de Fotografia. The exhibition gathers seven international artists, including UK’s Mandy Barker who will present Soup, Sand, Beyond Drifting: Imperfectly Known Animals, a dialogue between photography and scientific research that explores the problem of plastic waste in the oceans. “Think we must” says prominent quote of Virginia Woolf. However, thinking is merely a first footstep, since fundamental changes appear only if thoughts are carried into actions. Therefore, what can we do beside thinking to save our planet? The exhibition is a showcase of nine artists whose work digs deep into political and environmental narratives defining our global world. With strength and determination, they make work that unflinchingly challenges social structures and depict abuses of power on our natural environment. | | | | | | | | | | from the series The Hawks Come Up Before the Sun © Kovi Konowiecki | | | THE HAWKS COME UP BEFORE THE SUN
Curator: Pablo Berásegui Lozano; co-curator: Kovi Konowiecki
Participant artists: Kovi Konowiecki (USA)
At Salut Au Monde!, from May 7th to June 28th
“The Hawks Come Up Before The Sun” is a poetic glance to the western side of the California desert dwellers, be-known as the “Black Eyes”. People that seems to care about nothing but what is in front of them. The exhibition is the second proposal of Salut au monde!, a program of contemporary photography focus on alterity that showcases work from emergent authors coming from far away places but that have in common their interest in depicting the world around them. | | | | | | | | | | © Dinis Santos | | | exílio da paisagem
Curator: José Maia
Chana de Moura (BR) Dinis Santos (PT)
At MIRA FORUM, from May 16th to June 22nd
Curated by José Maia, the Mira Forum will exhibit o exílio da paisagem. “The artistic work of both Chana de Moura (Brazil, 1989) and Dinis Santos (S. João da Madeira, 1983), artists selected in the Open Call Programme of the 2019 edition of the CI.CLO Porto Photography Biennial, exceeds the
positions of the medium, offering body, shape, existence and action to the multiple matter of which images are made. In this extension of photography’s place, the two projects – close to each other and developed in residency - gravitate in common constellations, imbued at the summit of their singular orientations to find themselves in a broader dialogue on issues of human and ecological positioning, of the real and of what surpasses it, advancing in the reasoning of the problems that extend over various times and moments”. Text by João Terras. | | | | | | | | | | © Maria Oliveira 2019 | | | | | | unsubscribe here
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