Quatro Elementos

Quatro Elementos [Four Elements] is structured around the cosmogonic idea of the Natural Elements – that has inspired thinkers over the ages and continues to influence contemporary artistic practice in its various different areas, in particular in the visual arts.

Four curators have been invited to develop an exhibition project and each was assigned an Element: Ana Luísa Amaral – Water; Eduarda Neves – Earth; Nuno Faria – Air; Pedro Faro – Fire.

This is a quasi-animistic exhibition about the more or less material representation of the Water, Earth, Fire and Air in the work of artists, writers and other thinkers. This exhibition proposes to visit the Elements, using multiple languages, in an isolated or contaminated manner, questioning their complex manifestations in the absence or presence of human action.

Artists: Carlos Alberto Augusto, Erik Samakh, Laetitia Morais, Manuel Zimbro, Mariana Caló e Francisco Queimadela, Mattia Denisse, Nicolau da Costa, Tomás Cunha Ferreira, Ana Pérez-Quiroga, Catarina Dias, David Wojnarowicz, Diogo Pimentão, Douglas Gordon, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Fernão Cruz, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Horácio Frutuoso, Jack Pierson, James Baldwin, João Gabriel Pereira, João Pedro Vale & Nuno Alexandre Ferreira, Joaquim Manuel da Rocha, Júlio Pomar, Julius Eastman, Labareda (Sonja Câmara), Martha Rosler, Nuno Cera, Nuno Ramalho, Pedro Gomes, Rudolfo da Silva, Salomé Lamas, Sara Bichão, Vasco Araújo, Vítor Pomar, Xana, Aki Nagasaka and Sérgio Leitão.

Poetry reading (Water): Ana Luísa Amaral, Emília Silvestre, Filipa Leal, João Reis, Jorge Pinto, Pedro Lamares, Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen.

Photography: Dinis Santos