Staring Contest #6
Maria Trabulo, Diogo Bolota
2025
até 
25
May 2025
MUSEU
Staring Contest #6

Staring Contest #6

Collective Exhibition

Staring Contest #6

Collective exhibition

Registration open
19
February 2025
to
25
May 2025
MUSEU

As we learned when we were kids, in a staring contest, one cannot smile, blink or even look away. All those things are subjected to the ultimate penalty: defeat. When two bodies face each other in a Staring Contest, the tension between them is too evident. There is no place for compromise.

In this curatorial project, we ask the artistic community (and beyond) to suggest one or more objects that can be partnered up with the exhibited work.

In this sixth moment, from February 19th to May 25th, a partner was sought for Maria Trabulo’s não esquecer de esquecer (2016).

After the deliberation of the jury, this edition of Staring Contest features a work proposed by Diogo Bolota, in response to the already announced work. The relationship between não esquecer de esquecer and Apaga a dor seemed to the jury to be the most appropriate, taking into account the curatorial assumption, despite the quality of the various proposals submitted.

Let’s play a Staring Contest. One body facing another. They must stare at each other.

Whoever smiles, looks away or blinks loses.

To be still, but not motionless: the play is on as it games on lethargy. A contribution to a symmetry of intentions, broken by the asymmetry on the surface.

Daniel Madeira

Automatic translation

Artists

Maria Trabulo

Diogo Bolota

Curatorship

Exhibition Views

© Jorge das Neves

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Location and schedule

Location

Localização

Every day, 24 hours

External link

Exhibition room sheet

Acknowledgements

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Technical sheet

Open technical sheet

Organization
CAPC — Círculo de Artes Plásticas de Coimbra

Curated by
Daniel Madeira

Production coordination
Daniel Madeira
Lisiane Mutti

Executive production
Daniel Alves da Silva
Fernando Oliveira

Production assistance
Ivone Antunes

Communication
Clara Almeida Santos (coordination)
Isabel Campante
Analú Bailosa

Communication assistance
Alexandra Oliveira
Daniel Alves da Silva

Assembly
Jorge das Neves (coordination)
Marco Graça
Fernando Oliveira

Graphic design
Alexandra Oliveira
João Bicker

Text
Daniel Madeira

Proofreading
Carina Correia

Translation
José Roseira

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