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moths drink the tears of sleeping birds - zaratan

26/2/2022

MOTHS DRINK THE TEARS OF SLEEPING BIRDS #7
WHEN | 26 February, 18:00
ENTRY | 3,5€ [monthly member fee]
Moths drink the tears of sleeping birds is a scientific statement and proposition of intent. It forms the starting point for a cycle that explores itinerancy as a mode of practice, an experiment that can be both subtle and fierce. For each edition of the cycle, materials are selected for a screening, into which two artists are invited to intervene using sound, image, installation, performance... How these interventions play out cannot be foreseen. Still, as the moth that hovers for an instant over the bird, everything subsequently disappears, moments of cross-contamination that vanish without trace.
For the seventh edition artists Marcelo Felix and Nina Fraser have chosen to subvert the usual format of the cycle, this time using text and experiments in frottage to create the short film
Curated by: Isobel Atacus
Invited Artists: Marcelo Felix and Nina Fraser
Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura / Direção-Geral das Artes

Artist talk: “From body to earth; mini implosions and sometimes the opposite”

20/1/2022

Friday, February 11th, from 7pm to 8.30pm
@ O Gabinete de Madame Thao (LX Factory, loft i2-07), Lisbon.

Reflecting upon her ‘circle series’, some of which are featured in the latest exhibition Historias de boudoir, Nina unveils questions and thoughts surrounding her practice in the recent years, touching on upon issues of repair, rebuilding, perception of trauma, mundanity and home, that interweave through her collage and mixed media works on paper.

There will be no entrance fee but you can donate to support OGMT programming

Cut Me Up Issue 8: guided by instinct

3/1/2022

Cut Me Up Issue 8: Guided by Instinct, curated by Naomi White, is a selection of 18 artworks that explore humans’ complex relationships with animals, and the implications these relationships have on our lives and planet.

In our relationship with animals, there are many contradictions. As John Berger declares in Why Look At Animals, “Animals first entered the imagination as messengers and promises. For example, the domestication of cattle did not begin as a simple prospect of milk and meat. Cattle had magical functions, sometimes oracular, sometimes sacrificial.” We mythologize and revere animals, yet sacrifice, tame, kill and consume them. What does that say about us as a species?

The artists in this issue investigate the dualistic meanings which animals embody and the contradictions in ourselves that this relationship illuminates. Exploring our paradoxical desires to nurture, love, dominate and consume animals, the artists’ responses range from tenderness to concern, from joy to enchantment.

Cut Me Up is a participatory magazine of visual call and response founded by Andrea Burgay. Each issue presents a curated selection of original collage images that will become raw material for reader-artists to respond by cutting, reconfiguring, and transforming them into new artworks, in response to curatorial calls addressing contemporary issues. The newly created responses
form the content of the next issue.

cutmeupmagazine.com

Histórias de boudoir

6/12/2021

Histórias de boudoir” - collective exhibition by Francisca Carvalho, Nina Fraser, Hoang Nam Viet, Sandrine Llouquet, Florian Song Nguyen, Truc-Anh, Mai Loan Tu and João Vilhena
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Opening Friday 3rd December
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O Gabinete de Madame Thao⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
LX Factory Loft i 2-07 (entrance 2, 2d floor), Rua Rodrigues de Faria, 103, 1300-501 Lisbon⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Wed - Fri, 12 - 5pm, Sat & Sun, 12 - 6pm

Image: “Beneath the roots of the mountains”
Watercolor, giclée print collage, 202150 x 50cm

hammertime - exhibition-auction @zaratan

15/11/2021

Common Ground // Atelier Concorde - Lisbon Art WEEKEND

7/11/2021

[EN ]Within the context of Lisbon Art Weekend Atelier Concorde presents 'Common Ground', a collective exhibition by Juliana Matsumura, Inês Teles, Irit Batsry, Nina Fraser, Pedro Faria and Tiago Rocha Costa, exploring the overlap between different mediums through found objects, illusion, destruction of matter and liminal space.

Opening
12 Nov 17h - 19h
Artist talk and guided tour
13 Nov 15h - 17h
Exhibition and open studios
12 - 13 - 14 Nov 12h - 19h

Atelier Concorde has over the years hosted many exhibitions and residencies, valuing collective experiences of debating work and public engagement. You are also invited to go behind the scenes to get familiar with works in progress in our studio spaces.

[PT] No âmbito do Lisbon Art Weekend apresentamos 'Common Ground', exposição de Juliana Matsumura, Inês Teles, Irit Batsry, Nina Fraser, Pedro Faria e Tiago Rocha Costa, explorando a sobreposição de diferentes media através de objetos encontrados, ilusão, destruição da matéria e espaço liminar.

Inauguração
12 Nov 17h - 19h
Conversa e visita guiada
13 Nov 15h - 17h
Exposição e estúdios abertos
12 - 13 - 14 Nov 12h - 19h

O Atelier Concorde acolheu ao longo dos anos inúmeras exposições e residências, valorizando as experiências colectivas de debate e troca de ideias com o público. Assim teremos também os nossos estúdios abertos para um contacto mais próximo com as obras em curso.

home

15/10/2021

Nina Fraser presents her fundraising exhibition home, on view at Espaço Cultural Mercês from 15 - 22 Oct and online from 16 Oct - 30 Nov 2021. Focussing on home - or its absence - as a conduit for accessing multiple layers of emotional experience and perception, the exhibition makes reference to the artist's notion of identity and place, considering how individual experience, memory and the transformative effect of trauma can become collective subjects of contemplation and action. Nina's work frequently uses found images as a method of both disrupting narrative and questioning assumptions proposed through a media saturated environment, connecting to a deeply personal exploration into what it means to belong in the world.

The work in this exhibition, made between 2015 and 2021, consists of predominantly analogue collages, as well as some drawing, watercolour and linocut. Each work is priced at €100. The exhibition fundraiser will help the artist and her partner rebuild their lives after a gas explosion destroyed their home and all their possessions just before Christmas of 2020. Proceeds from this exhibition will help pay the €9000 required to stabilise the area of the explosion, an expense which falls solely on the tenants of the property and needs to be paid by the end of 2021.
Additionally, 10% of the proceeds will be donated to CRESCER, a Lisbon charity who work tirelessly in assisting those in chronic need of housing, are homeless or do not have access to government support.

Nina Fraser apresenta a exposição de angariação de fundos home, patente no Espaço Cultural Mercês, de 15 a 22 de Outubro, e online, de 16 de Outubro a 30 de Novembro de 2021. Centrando-se na casa - ou na sua ausência - como elemento que permite aceder a múltiplos planos de experiência emocional e de percepção, a exposição parte do entendimento que a artista tem dos conceitos de identidade e de lugar, considerando o modo como a experiência individual, a memória e o efeito transformador do trauma se podem tornar em temas colectivos de contemplação e de acção. No seu trabalho, Nina Fraser usa com frequência imagens existentes/encontradas como método para criar uma disrupção narrativa e para questionar as premissas que nos são propostas através de um ambiente saturado com informação, assim procurando uma forma mais profunda de exploração pessoal do que possa significar estar no mundo.

O corpo de trabalho apresentado nesta exposição foi desenvolvido entre 2015 e 2021 e consiste sobretudo num conjunto de colagens afins, incluindo ainda algum desenho, aguarela e linogravura. A cada trabalho foi dado o valor de 100€. A exposição de angariação de fundos ajudará a artista e o seu companheiro a refazer as suas vidas após uma explosão ter destruído a casa onde moravam e tudo o que possuíam antes do Natal de 2020. Os benefícios da exposição irão ajudar a pagar as despesas de 9000€ de estabilização da área destruída, uma despesa que deve ser suportada apenas pelos proprietários e que deverá ser paga até ao final do ano de 2021.
Além disso, 10% de todos os benefícios angariados serão doados à CRESCER, uma associação de caridade sediada em Lisboa que trabalha incansavelmente na assistência de quem está em situação de falta de habitação crónica, sem abrigo ou sem acesso a apoio governamental.

Espaço Cultural Mercês
Rua Cecílio de Sousa, 94, 1200-102 Lisboa

Exhibition opening: 15 October 2021 6 - 9pm
Monday to Friday 2pm - 8pm
Continues: 15 October to 22 October 2021
Online: 15 October to 30 November 2021

corrente de ar

31/8/2021

CORRENTE DE AR | group show 3 - 5 Sep
Opening event 3 Sep : 18h - 22h
4 & 5 Sep : 15h - 20h

Rua de Alegria 136 - 138
Lisbon

100for100 raised 675€ for CRESCER

8/3/2021

Huge THANK YOU to everyone who supported the 100for100 artwork fundraiser - not only did you help us get back on our feet but collectively we managed to donate 675€ to CRESCER, in turn helping support vulnerable homeless in the Lisbon community.

100 for 100 fundraiser

1/2/2021

100 for 100 is a fundraising online exhibition and sale to help me and my partner rebuild our lives after a gas explosion and fire destroyed our apartment just before Christmas 2020.

The pieces in the 100 for 100 collection were produced between 2014 and 2020, and are all priced at €100, unframed, including EU shipping. For the next six months, 10% of the sale price of the 100 for 100 collection of selected artworks will be donated to CRESCER, to assist their projects helping chronically vulnerable homeless people in Lisbon who do not have the support mechanisms in place that we were lucky to have.

Go to fundraiser

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