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28/9/2012

metaphoria

Archaeological Museum Sociedade Martins Sarmento, Guimaraes

Co-produced with Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture

Commissioner Sílvia Guerra and Laurent Fievet

Jean-François Pauvros. In contemporary Greece, forms of transport are called metaphors. We enter a metaphor to travel or to make our day-to-day journeys.
The word metaphor, which was used in writing and poetry in the classical era, operates the transformation, making reality out of fiction. Portuguese literature and its ability to create a fictional tessitura of myths, from the Arab kings to the Renaissance authors who created the myth of Sebastian, was one of the points of entry into this creative process. It was through the written word that the guest artists and writers decided to enter the country and the city of Guimarães.

Metaphoria, a word that is neither Greek, nor Portuguese, nor French, will try to create this space of transport in contemporary art in a collective exhibition of previously unseen works by two visual artists, Jason Dodge and Katie Paterson, three writers, Rui Costa and Ellen Leblond Shrader and two musicians, Hélène Breschand and Jean-François Pauvros.

"An exhibition can be born out a single word. Or from a desire to think of how poetry, one of the literary forms most entrenched in the history of a country such as Portugal, enables a nation to preserve its unconscious and to preserve its dreams when they are slipping away. Poems can sometimes live in our memory, but how might they open an area for thought in a museum.

It is the job of the curator not only to render the work visible or readable, but to organize a sensitive, emotional path between the works, restoring to the visitor the experience of his associative power, of his imagination. Poetry can be born from artworks, when, wordlessly, they create an opening, a 'passage.' The adventure begins when the explanations end—when we venture to penetrate into mystery." (Silvia Guerra)

Fouchard Filippi Communications
Philippe Fouchard-Filippi tel: +33 6 60 211 194 phff@fouchardfilippi.com

Opening 29th of september 10pm
World premiere of "… pour ainsi dire …" a concert by Hélène Breschand and Jean-François Pauvros

Archaeological Museum Sociedade Martins Sarmento
Rua Paio Galvão, 4814-509 Guimarães, Portugal
Timetable
from tuesday to saturday 9.30am - 12am and 2pm - 5pm
sunday 10am - 12am and 2pm - 5pm
Free admission

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