Carolina Grau /Curator
Duets : Layers: Filipa César / Lisa Tan. Sensuality: Salma Cheddadi / Julião Sarmento. Painting: Rui Toscano / Jaume Pitarch. Film assembly: Raphaël Zarka / Duncan Campbell. Cinema: Eric Baudelaire / Pablo Pijnappel at Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, 2013
A Duet is an activity performed by a pair of closely connected individuals. Each one has its own characteristics playing the same melody with different tones, tempos and rhythms. Duet is a presentation of speci c video works by two artists creating a dialogue with their similitude and differences changing during each day of the week. Using the existing two different spaces at Cristina Guerra gallery, one space darker and more intimate and the other wider for more cinematic experience, the different conversations will develop during each week.
Tuesday / LAYERS: Filipa César – Lisa Tan. The Portuguese artist Filipa César and the American artist Lisa Tan combine documentary and subjective viewpoints layering history, memory, image, narrative and creativity.
Wednesday / SENSUALITY: Salma Cheddadi – Julião Sarmento. The Moroccan lmmaker Salma Cheddadi and the Portuguese artist Julião Sarmento explore issues around the repre- sentation of the female body, sensuality and desire.
Thursday / PAINTING: Jaume Pitarch – Rui Toscano. The Spanish artist, Jaume Pitarch and the Portuguese artist Rui Toscano delve into the manipulation and in uence of painting trying to give it a new digital dimension.
Friday / FILM ASSEMBLY: Raphaël Zarka – Duncan Campbell. The French artist, Raphaël Zarka and the Irish artist Duncan Campbell lms are assembled from archive material and found footage looking at the history from the present point of view.
Saturday / CINEMA: Eric Baudelaire – Pablo Pijnappel. The French artist, Eric Baudelaire and the Brazilian artist Pablo Pijnappel share an interest of the past, playing with the presence and absence of images when working with their lms as well as they explore different techniques of cinematic narratives.
In Cachéu, 2012, a lecture, performed by Joana Barrios, brings together elements of César’s research on four colonial statues, which are stored today at one of the rst establishment for slave trade in the West African country of Guinea Bissau – the Cachéu fortresses, constructed by the Portuguese in 1588.
Andrew Reid, 2003 is the story of Pablo Pijnappel’s stepfather, who has lived in several countries in Latin America, Europe and the USA. The video is presented in three parts, in which Pijnappel plays with different conventions of cinematographic narrative.