Windows

Most of us spend the day looking at monitors and screens, in a situation curiously similar to that of the public who, following the invention of perspective, have been seeing theater through a large window called Proscenium. Seeing the world through windows is now a different thing than it was in traditional theatres where we continue to make theatre. The tools of representation have changed, the nature of images has changed. For the Portuguese participation in the PQ 2019 Exhibition of Countries and Regions, we propose an installation on the mechanisms of representation which, in the time of Photoshop, create and condition the act of seeing the traditional stage.

Eight sets by José Capela – which have the way we see them as their theme – can be seen inside four containers whose shape is determined by the representation mechamisms used in each set: axonometry, perspective, tridimensional assembly, etc. Although calculated rationally, the containers are used to constitute a sculptural ensemble that integrates the general landscape of the exhibition, depending on it – space, instalations from other countries, and visitors are all reflected in the containers and pavement, which are both fully mirrored.

The Windows installation also integrates the mirrored catalogue W: JC + JCD and includes the performance of Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Jorge Andrade / mala voadora (Studio Hrdinů, 10 june).

Country/Region Portugal

Presenting Organization Ministry of Culture of Portugal – Diretorate General for the Arts, mala voadora

Curator José Capela

Curatorial Team João Pedro Fonte

Artists José Capela, José Carlos Duarte