MUSEU BERARDO, Lisbon
Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
Centro Cultural de Belém
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
Praça do Império
1449-003 Lisbon - See more at: http://en.museuberardo.pt/museum/visiting-museum#sthash.jWYrwUz9.dpuf
The work of Carla Filipe (n. 1973) has been proved one of the most significant projects happening in Portugal at the end of the last decade. The artist´s study makes an archeology on the issues and ways of life that aroused, in the course of modernity, associated with certain expectations of another world reality whose implementation has proved quite different. Many of Carla´s work go toward an autobiographical nature, some relate to episodes of micro-stories, others to the social and political history. They all consist of a narrative structure where the object, the design, installation and word are recurring media.
"from head to tail" is an unprecedented large-scale project undertaken for this exhibition at Museu Coleção Berardo and gathers some previous work along new material. Focusing on research on the Portuguese Railways and bringing into the space of the museum fragments of houses, architectural structures, furnishings, collections of uniforms, union flags, elements and functional mechanisms of everyday railway stations, fictional and documentary films or drawing plans of machines, which will articulate with each other, moving along other autobiographical waste in order to create a ghostly file, which dismisses any claim to scientific approach to reveal a sensitive knowledge of an historical reality.
As in most of Carla Filipe´s work, in "from head to tail" the objects from the world, related to each other, beyond its instrumental functions trace a beam of relations susceptible of defining a broad set of narratives that complicate its apparent simplicity or even insignificance. They become a supplement among the missing stories that run them and resend them. As such, proving to be the assignment of space for memory that the work of Carla Filipe wake´s up and reinvents.
Pedro Lapa
Artist Director
