In this conversation taking place in the Poetic Earth exhibition space, the exhibition’s curator João Pinharanda and journalist and writer Isabel Lucas reflect on the works of Anna Maria Maiolino, exchanging ideas on literature, poetry and art. 

This conversation forms part of the series ‘Conversations in Motion: art and other forms of knowledge’, a space where art intersects with other fields of knowledge, inviting artists, curators, architects and thinkers to reflect on the ways contemporary creation engages with culture, science, philosophy and everyday life.

In this series, artistic practice is understood as an expanded field of knowledge, capable of generating new ways of interpreting the world and bringing about transformations in the way we perceive and inhabit it. This is an exercise in listening and shared thought, in which dialogue drives discovery: a space in motion, where ideas circulate, intersect and transform.

Useful information

Date: May 17

Time: 15.30–16.30

Duration: 60 min.

Language: Portuguese

Target audience: adults and young people

Capacity: max. 28 participants

Location: MAAT Gallery, Oval Gallery

Meeting point: MAAT Gallery entrance hall

Price: Free, subject to venue capacity. Wristbands must be collected in advance from the museum ticket office (MAAT Central), from 90 minutes before the event.

Biography

Isabel Lucas is a journalist and literary critic. With a degree in Media Studies from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, she began her career in television journalism and has since worked in the newsrooms of some of Portugal’s leading newspapers and magazines. A freelancer since 2012, she writes regularly for the newspaper Público and contributes to the magazines Ler and Quatro Cinco Um, as well as to the Antena 3 radio station. Having published in various publications at home and abroad, she is the author of the books Isabel_Lucas — Conversas com Vicente Jorge Silva (Temas e Debates, 2013), Viagem ao sonho americano, Viagem ao país do futuro and Conversas com escritores, all three published by Companhia das Letras. She is also co-author of several books in the field of dance and the visual arts. In 2022 she curated the programme for the Portuguese Pavilion at the São Paulo Book Biennial. She is the curator of the Oceanos Literature Prize and a visiting lecturer at the School of Media Studies, part of the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute. In 2021, she won the first edition of the Vicente Jorge Silva Award for Excellence in Journalism.