Portugal – Year Zero
28 june — 15 september 2024
Curator: José Luís Neves, Luís Pinto Nunes, Susana Lourenço Marques
“Portugal – Year Zero: photography books of the revolution” is an exhibition curated by José Luís Neves, Luís Pinto Nunes and Susana Lourenço Marques, which presents an extensive selection of books, featuring images taken by Portuguese and foreign photographers, which reflects the publishing boom after Portugal’s 1974 revolution.
The core of the exhibition is comprised by books that explores the revolutionary process in progress, the counter-revolutionary movements that emerged during this period, the documentation of street art and protest practices, the process of land reform and the role played by women. Special attention is also paid to international photographers who visited Portugal during this period, including Jochen Moll, Guy Le Querrec, Tano D’Amico or Jason Lauré.
This set of images from the second half of the 20th century is complemented by works by Portuguese authors who developed their work based on a selection of the photography books on display, such as Pedro Augusto’s work in the book Uma Certa Maneira de Cantar (a certain way of singing, 1977), Dinis Santos’ Casas Clandestinas (clandestine houses) of the Portuguese Communist Party, Tiago Madaleno’s work, based on White wall in Alentejo (1977), or iteration of Lisa Santos Silva’s A cabra não é cega (the she-goat isn’t blind) (1976).
«Portugal Ano Zero» is one of the 45 projects supported by the “Art for Democracy” programme, an initiative of the Commemorative Commission for the 50th anniversary of April 25, in partnership with the Directorate-General for the Arts.
José Luís Neves Professor of the history and theory of photography at the Universities of Northampton and Ulster in the UK. He completed his MA in History of Photography at De Montfort University and finished his PhD at the University of Ulster in 2017 where he carried out extensive academic research into the history and historiography of the photobook. She began her curatorial practice at the Wilson Centre for Photography in 2010 and has since curated several exhibitions on the photobook in collaboration with the Photobook Week Aarhus festival in Denmark. She regularly participates in European conferences and festivals dedicated to photography and the photobook and has published articles on the same subject in various specialized publications – PhotoResearcher, Compendium, Source Magazine, Belgian Platform for Photobooks, OCAT Institute Beijing.sita comentada com Mariana Rocha
Luís Pinto Nunes has a degree in Fine Arts (2010), a postgraduate degree in Art Studies – Museological and Curatorial Studies (2011) and a Master’s degree in Art Studies – Museology in Curatorship (2023) from FBAUP. In 2012 he attended the Independent Study Program at Jürgen Bock’s Maumaus School.He is the coordinator of the Museum and Exhibitions Office at the FBAUP, developing exhibition and curatorial projects, and is the curator and manager of its collection.Since 2010, he has coordinated LPN-LAP, where he develops curatorial and exhibition projects, editorial work and consultancy on cultural projects. Member of the organizing committee and curator of xCoAx – Computation Communication Aesthetics and [2014-24] Research member of i2ADS – FBAUP. Member of the acquisitions and works of art committee for the CMP collection [2018-19]. Member of the appraisal committee for the DGArtes Project Support Program – Visual Arts and Sustained Support Program – Biennial 2025-2026 – Visual Arts [2024].
Susana Lourenço Marques Professor, curator and independent publisher. She is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and has a PhD in Communication and Art from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities. New University of Lisbon. She is an integrated researcher at I2ADS/Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade do Porto and author of the books Ether/um laboratório de Fotografia e História (Dafne, 2018) and Pó, cinza, nevoeiro – um ensaio sobre a ausência (2018), having co-edited Livros de Fotografia em Portugal da revolução ao Presente (2023), Lágrimas de Crocodilo (2022) and Pedagogy of the streets, Porto 1977 (2018). As a curator, her exhibitions stand out: Who taught you? Nobody, by Elvira Leite (2016), Galeria Portátil PLF (2018), Imagem/Técnica, os inventários de Emilio Biel (2020), Opacity of Water (2021), Loss of Aura (2022) Eternal Youth (2023) and No tempo dos Dias Lentos (2023). In 2014, he co-founded the publishing house Pierrot le Fou.
SIDE PROGRAM
July 14 | 15:00 | Guided tour with Mariana Rocha
