A Moeda Viva
Living Currency
A Moeda Viva (Living Currency) is a group exhibition at Galeria Quadrum. Its title is borrowed from Pierre Klossowski’s essay La Monnaie vivante published in 1970. This curatorial project also invokes L’Argent, the last film directed by Robert Bresson, which in turn is based on the short story The Forged Coupon by Lev Tolstói. Each of these works explores the predominance that money can play in our lives.
The exhibition’s narrative proposes a set of works that reinvents various dimensions of the convention we know as money. Currency is in essence a symbol of trade and exchange and transformation are recurring gestures of these artists as they seek to reveal, without ever fully do so, that which escapes us.
Tuesday to Sunday: 10 am - 1 pm; 2 pm - 6 pm
Credits:
Artists - Ângela Ferreira, António Contador & Carla Cruz, Cildo Meireles, Fábio Colaço, Filipa César, Filipe Pinto, Isa Toledo, Isabel Cordovil, Leonor Antunes, Lourdes Castro, Luís Paulo Costa, Mauro Cerqueira, Nuno Henrique, Pedro A.H. Paixão, Rita GT
Curator - Maria do Mar Fazenda
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