Sines is in the familiar landscape of artist Nuno Cera, and his works, housed in the exhibition curated by BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide), converse perfectly with this place full of contrasts that today has exchanged the very physical and heavy wooden ships driven Vasco de Gama, a native of the town, for submarine cables spitting out data at top speed
Exhibition design for Nuno Cera's rich work, Distant Lights, in Sines
The exhibition title Distant Lights opens the door to Portugal's rather complex history, built on expectations of what comes and goes, to and from the ocean. A history of global and distant, sometimes violent, relationships is significantly anchored in the small town of Sines
"Space, like countries and politics, is not neutral. White, architectural neo-minimalism has nothing to do with neutrality." (BUREAU)
Distant Lights is housed within the Centro de Arte de Sines, a museum whose structure embraces the protective vocation towards art and knowledge: exceptional and exceptionally and wonderfully hermetic spaces
The museum's architecture is also very interested in light. Nuno Cera inscribes himself on purpose in space but, as the title of his exhibition suggests, in his works one will be dealing with a different kind of light, distancing or escaping any preconceived and overly determined definition of a specific field
The Centro de Arte de Sines is a 1:1 scale model of a "wonderland," where, following Alice in ... Architecture, one plunges into a protected space to daydream with light. The "ultrathining" proposed by BUREAU as the compositional element of the installation is the act of helping the visitor to change his or her scale of perception, entering the model and wandering through it, going down the rabbit hole to find Nuno's world and defying the climbing "gravity," adapting perception to the very different situations to which the works refer, zooming in at different scales all the time, adjusting the lens to what the images have to offer and propose
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