Skip to main content
Carla Filipe. Amanhã não há arte
Carla Filipe, Amanhã Não Há Arte
Carla Filipe, Amanhã Não Há Arte

This exhibition continued Carla Filipe’s research into the visual and graphic strategies used in the political narrative, specifically protest banners. The project presents a set of symbols and graphic images taken from the political post-25 April 1974 narrative, while removing all manual plasticity from it. The banner is the shape chosen to materialise her complex, large-scale compositions, where repetitions of and variations on the base elements, taken from the graphic materials gathered from political demonstrations in the country’s recent history, subjugate and contradict their own source and identity.

Filipe uses these images, superficially depoliticised or devoid of any political agency, in order to question the role of the artist in the current socio-political context. Deprived of individual protesting capacity and without the power of a collective body to support her, the artist issues the threat: “Tomorrow there’s no art”, as an attempt to mobilise people to react to the challenges faced by the artistic community.

MAAT Gallery
MAAT Gallery
Indicates required field

wrapper

Choose the language
Choose the newsletter to receive
This question is for testing whether or not you are a human visitor and to prevent automated spam submissions.
I declare that I am aware of the privacy policy and agree that my personal data will be collected by the EDP Foundation and processed for each of the purposes I have indicated.