Inserções. Obras da Coleção Norlinda e José Lima na Universidade de Aveiro [Inserts. Works from the Norlinda and José Lima Collection at the University of Aveiro]
19 april — 15 july 2021
Curator: Sérgio Mah
Production: Universidade de Aveiro
Inserções. Obras da Coleção Norlinda e José Lima na Universidade de Aveiro brings together paintings, drawings, sculpture, photograph and video by a wide range of Portuguese artists whose trajectories began after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Curated by Sérgio Mah, the show also features a section of the Berlin Wall taken from Potsdamer Platz, which, like the selected works, is part of the Norlinda and José Lima Collection.
Distributed across three buildings, and seeking to dialogue with their architectural and functional characteristics, ‘the works are representative of a world in change, of a time in which the connections between art, historical memory and the proliferation of different everyday realities and social imaginaries has been intensifying’. [Sérgio Mah]. [Sérgio Mah].
Sérgio Mah is a curator and university professor. He started by studying sociology and went on to specialize in art and communication theory. He lectures at the Faculty of Human and Social Sciences and at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. Mah writes about and researches contemporary art with a particular focus on the practices and theories of image. In recent years, he has organized several solo and group exhibitions of artists such as Joel Sternfeld, Jeff Wall, Eugene Smith, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Walid Raad, Larry Sultan, Thomas Demand, Michael Snow, Aaron Siskind, and Eli Lotar. From 2003 to 2005 he was the art director of the LisboaPhoto Biennial and, from 2008 to 2010, the art director of PhotoEspaña. In 2011, Mah organized Portuguese Representation to the 54th Venice Biennale.
Artists
Daniel Malhão
Filipa César
Isabel Ribeiro
João Pedro Vale + Nuno Alexandre Ferreira
Miguel Palma
Musa paradisiaca
Rui Toscano
Tiago Baptista
