FPM #4 - Bons, menos Bons e outros Sobreviventes | Good, less Good and other Survivors

Synopsis

Bons, menos Bons e outros Sobreviventes (Good, less Good and other Survivors) is the original title of an installation created by the artist Susanne Themlitz in 1999. It was exhibited at ESAD in Caldas da Rainha, at the Maia Biennial, and at the Schneiderei Gallery in Cologne. The two works are a photograph and a video that are part of the collection of the PLMJ Foundation and of this exhibition. These two works can be understood as a fragment of this complex installation, in terms of means, materials and references such as “regular, a wonderful individual, with a slightly aseptic appearance, but human and graceful, in fact he acts only by instinct, blind and naked, offended, the hero, the victim, the sceptic...” as the artist says in an extract from a text written for this installation. The FPM #4 exhibition is made up of works by 28 Portuguese and foreign (CPLP) artists, in various media and supports, based on a reading of the representation of the body, human or animal, in a fragmented relationship with gestures, faces and figures, in different geographies that mediate the transit of the spectator’s body through the exhibition space.

The confrontation with the images places us in front of a map of ephemeral imaginaries, political and social references, intersecting with a fictional spectrum in the works of the artists: Albano Silva Pereira, Andrea Inocêncio, Arlindo Silva, Augusto Brázio, Brígida Mendes, Carlos Guarita, Cecília Costa, Eduardo Guerra, Eurico Lino Do Vale, Fernando Lemos, Gonçalo Pena, Joana Bastos, João Leonardo, João Maria Gusmão e Pedro Paiva, João Penalva, José Chambel, Julião Sarmento, Júlio de Matos, Manuel Botelho, Márcio Carvalho, Mário Macilau, Noé Sendas, Pedro Valdez Cardoso, René Tavares, Rui Calçada Bastos, Susanne Themlitz, Tiago Baptista, and Vasco Araújo.

Curator

João Silvério