Back of My Hand

Galeria Francisco Fino is delighted to announce Diogo Evangelista’s participation in the group show Back of my Hand, at Carpintarias de São Lázaro, from May 5th to June 26th.

 

Basma Al-Sharif, Diogo Evangelista, Hugo de Almeida Pinho, Ismaïl Bahri, João Tabarra,Julien Prévieux, Nguyễn Trinh Thi, Oscar Santillán, Sanaz Sohrabi, Uriel Orlow

Curated by Sara Castelo Branco

 

 “The hand was, in more than one aspect, our destiny”, said Elias Canetti. This apparent predisposition is manifested by the fact that the hand is one of the most symbolized parts of the human body – it’s an archetypal organ to talk about the process of correspondence between theory and practice, thought and materialization. On the other hand, gestures express both ancestral elements, and symptoms or traces of a given time, revealing what we can apprehend from our own contemporary condition. Considering this context, the group exhibition Back of My Hand is based on the way in which different artists work the poetic and political potential of hand, and its relationship with certain dynamics involved in the (in)visibility of images. In this sense, this exhibition presents a series of works in which the hand appears as a mechanism of action, revelation or performativity, aiming to question certain structures of knowledge and historical narrative, and to reflect about a tensioned space between what the image makes visible, and what exists in it in resistance and unintelligibility.

 

See also José Marmeleira’s article on Back of my Hand, in Contemporânea.

 

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Exhibition
05.05.2022 - 26.06.2022

 

Carpintarias de São Lázaro
Lisbon, Portugal
carpintariasdesaolazaro.pt

5 May 2022