The exhibition “Augmented Reality”, by Miguel Cheta, is open until 12 July, at the Municipal Museum of Faro.
The cycle “Prayers to chase away storms, malignant insects, etc.”, by Artadentro, returns to the Municipal Museum of Faro.
Although the term “augmented reality” has become popular as a designation for a new technological advance — which integrates, in real time, computer data into our perception of the world — it is not technology that truly interests Miguel Cheta.
«It is, rather, a certain sense of alienation, a characteristic feature of human society in general, now exacerbated by technological development — whether by deficit or deformation of information, by incapacity for critical analysis, etc.», says Artadentro.
In fact, Miguel Cheta, «in this multimedia exhibition (integrating projected image, photography, drawing and object), highlights the fragility of our society in the face of new challenges: the obsolescence of the typical industrial-era man-machine (what it reproduces) and the advent of the global technological man (endowed with technical competence and culturally able to exercise critical, adaptable and innovative analysis).
Miguel Cheta believes “that art has a fundamental role in education and social integration”. His work reflects the «proximity relationship with the territory he loves and inhabits, this peripheral, paradigmatic place, known as the Algarve».
Miguel Cheta, born in 1970, in Loulé, has a degree in Visual Arts from the University of Algarve and attended MobileHome – a nomadic and experimental school of contemporary art, directed by Nuno Faria in Loulé (2009/2012).
He has participated in educational projects that cross Heritage or/and Education with the artistic process, such as Magic Places of the Regional Directorate of Culture of the Algarve, 10X10 of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Arte Vezes Educação of the Municipality of Loulé. Exhibits regularly since 2001.
This show can be visited until July 12, at the following times: 10:00 am to 18:00 pm, Tuesday to Friday, and 10:30 am to 17:00 pm on Saturdays and Sundays.
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