Otelo Fabião's exhibition “Interface Makonde” – Constructions on some photographs of the Maconde people by Manuel Viegas Guerreiro, will be on display at the Convento Espírito Santo Art Gallery, in Loulé, from January 12th to March 30th.
Curated by Nuno Faria, this exhibition marks the meeting between the imaginaries of two Algarveans in the world, two nomads of thought: Manuel Viegas Guerreiro, born in Querença, a prominent Portuguese ethnologist and anthropologist, whose fieldwork in Mozambique with the Maconde people constitutes the backdrop for this exhibition, and Otelo Fabião, a contemporary artist, born in Loulé, based between Loulé and Londres, whose work, activated by an attentive and intense collection of objects found in everyday practice, circulates freely between the object, the drawing, sculpture, writing, drifting, etc.
In the space of the Convento do Espírito Santo Gallery, the black and white photographs of Manuel Viegas Guerreiro enter into dialogue, a visual extension of the field notebooks that substantiated the incursions to the Maconde place, and the objects, drawings and documents of Otelo Fabião, that constitute a sensorial, objective and intellectual overflight of the Maconde universe and of a set of operative questions related to the approximation to the other, to the distant, to the stranger. History, utopia, linear time versus circular time, form versus energy, belief, myth, ritual, transformation, metamorphosis, life and death, are some of the themes evoked by Otelo Fabião's work.
In a period of celebration of the centenary of the birth of Manuel Viegas Guerreiro, it is hoped that this exhibition will enlighten us about the contemporaneity of the work of the Portuguese ethnologist and the usefulness that they can have for current and future generations.
The exhibition opens at 19pm. The visiting hours are as follows: Monday to Friday, from 00:9 am to 00:17 pm, and on Saturday, from 30:9 am to 00:16 pm.
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