Face à Vida Nua

In Face à “Vida Nua” (Facing the Naked Life), Luciana Fina, João Pina and Vasco Barata present works that focus on the exceptional state we are presently living in. During the months of the pandemic, Vasco Barata devoted himself to drawing. Confined to the physical dimensions of his work space, this creative process digresses on the hybrid forms that symbolically inhabit us nowadays – organic, mutant, erratic. In turn, João Pina exposes photographs taken during the pandemic in Brazil, where one can see the inhabitants of Copan, one of the most emblematic modernist buildings in São Paulo, designed by Óscar Neimeyer, that houses five thousand tenants. Luciana Fina shows a film made during the first pandemic outbreak, in which she confronts herself with the devastation of the natural landscape by real estate speculation, at a time when the pandemic seemed to bring a new hope to rethink the systematic aggression on the ecosystems. The works presented in this exhibition, which are curated by Emília Tavares, are thus an exercise of community, an act of breathing as one, when faced with the naked life – a concept authored by Giorgio Agamben, one of the most controversial philosophers in present times.

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