Jonathas de Andrade
The Fish
Artist Jonathas de Andrade uses photography, installation, and video to traverse collective memory and history, employing strategies that blend fiction and reality. In the film “O Peixe” (The Fish), a fishing village stages a kind of ritual: they hold the fish in their arms until they die. An embrace between predator and prey, between life and death, between the worker and the fruit of their labor. Situated in a hybrid territory between documentary and fiction, the work dialogues with the ethnographic tradition of audiovisual media.
Ryan Trecartin
Temple Time
Ryan Trecartin is one of the most innovative artists working in video today. Ryan Trecartin’s films are a mix of performance art, sitcoms, and hypnotic digital collages. Filmed in a former Masonic temple in Los Angeles—a five-story labyrinth of large, cavernous rooms resembling a convention center—Temple Time unfolds like a horror movie expedition of a group of friends to a wild camping ground.
Meg Stuart
The Only Possible City
Initially conceived for a large, neutral room at Manifesta, Meg Stuart’s video installation has now been recontextualized in the Capela das Albertas, inside the National Museum of Ancient Art in Lisbon. The Capela das Albertas was a Carmelite convent for women, founded at the end of the 16th century, and it is likely that few people remember it. The space has been closed and is in need of restoration, and will be reopened exclusively and temporarily for this work by Meg Stuart.
