A look at contemporary visual culture and how it has been progressively mutating towards models where seemingly opposite dimensions come together to create hybrid forms: material and virtual, textual and objectual, organic and artificial, consumerism and spirituality have been merging and blurring previously defined boundaries (catalogue).
The exhibition “Hybridize or Disappear” analyses artistic practices where the visual is handled as matter and brought into a dialogue with sculptural forms. Objects become images and images become objects in a process that surpasses pure visuality towards a more expanded engagement with the visual where the body holds a central position, becoming a depicted object as well as an instrument of interaction. This book aims to expand on the universe of the show, posing a wide set of questions that shape contemporary visual culture, rather than serving as a document or an archive. Through the lens of the “hybrid”, the commissioned texts look at different dimensions of our current condition, addressing ideas related to the circulation of identity and meaning in our mediated environments.
Published on the occasion of the group exhibition “Hybridize or Disappear”, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea – Museu do Chiado, Lisbon (April 9 to May 24, 2015), and at the Paços do Concelho, Câmara Municipal do Porto (July 9 to September 18, 2015).
Works by
Cécile B. Evans, Neïl Beloufa,
Antoine Catala, Diogo Evangelista, Oliver Laric, Shana Moulton,
Katja Novitskova,
Laure Prouvost,
Magali Reus.
Edited by João Laia.
Texts by Stephanie Bailey, Paulo Cunha E Silva, Attilia Fattori Franchini, João Laia, João Ribas, Alex Ross, David Santos, Andrey Shental, Eleanor Ivory Weber, Rósza Zita Farkas.
published in September 2015
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
15,5 x 22 cm (softcover)
168 pages (color & b/w ill.)
ISBN : 978-88-6749-168-1
EAN : 9788867491681
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