Many aphoristic references proclaim the affinity of the two great disciplines that have been brought together for this conversation: art and science. As ways of accessing the world and as sophisticated means of recording and processing it, art and science are perhaps the two areas that most express the curiosity and imagination that characterise the investigations we embark on to think about life and possible futures.

Nolan Oswald Dennis, one of the artists featured in the Black Ancient Futures exhibition, and astrophysicist and science communicator Pedro Russo, a member of the Ciência Viva/Pavilhão do Conhecimento board and assistant professor at Leiden University, are invited to reflect on these and other themes at MAAT, based on the artist's work.

Large-scale visual compositions in black and white, the artist's drawings use scientific data to create fictionalised languages, seeking to induce people to look at the sky and the earth, the past and the present, the disasters of the colonial past, and issues of racialisation and class, developing a discourse for the future. In the case of one of the works conceived specifically for this exhibition, for example, the artist explores a real event that is transformed into a symbolic landmark: the total eclipse of the Sun (which will take place on 2 August 2027), which will be observable throughout the Sahara, a borderland of separation and union between North and sub-Saharan Africa.

With: Nolan Oswald Dennis, Pedro Russo and Camila Maissune

Hours: 18h30-19h30  

Duration: 60 minutos

Capacity: max. 60 people

Language: English

Price: 15€ (The ticket for this performance grants access to all exhibitions on the same day)

MAAT Friends: 25% discount