The domestic space in performance

Performance is often a way of rescuing everyday actions from banality. It makes enigmatic what is evident and apparently unmysterious.

In the recurring relationship between art and life, this exhibition brings together ten artists who have in common this close relationship with everyday life, which removes art from any dazzling pomp. Artists who celebrate their own banality. Dragging with them banality, they are in fact summoning all reality, creating an intense symbolic potential.

Carla Filipe and her record of the lives of other families turning reality into fiction. Marco Mendes and a domestic space of sharing and of variable occupants, the division of the individual into several. António Melo prefers illusionism to the idea of art as an illusion, here, literally, to bring home. Arlindo Silva in the photographic instant that laborious painting immediately makes it last and last. Baltazar Torres is a claustrophobic interior idea where art can be a window. Armando Azevedo and the domestic as a vehicle for meta-art. António Olaio here in an affirmation/denial of painting as a window. Valdemar Santos in the ambiguity between art and artifact, between utility and aesthetic experience. José Maçãs de Carvalho in a documentary record where it is reality itself that generates fiction. João Fonte Santa in the rawness of an expanded and exposed diary entry. Pedro Pousada takes a domestic approach that, aspiring to be a bunker, is in fact a concentrational space of all realities.

Also at Círculo Sereia, A SALA, a documentary exhibition of this charismatic performance space in Porto led by the artist Susana Chiocca, will be inaugurated on the same day. SALA is an exhibition integrated into the Line Up Action Festival, to which the CAPC is thus associated.