You’ve eaten Roses, now you’ll drink the Moon!
12 September 2018 – 12 January 2019
sited at Altis Forum, Braga, Portugal
The exhibition You’ve eaten Roses, now you’ll drink the Moon! brings together for the first time a major body of works from the Leal Rios Foundation (FLR) outside its home in Lisbon, at the newly inaugurated Altis Forum Braga in Northern Portugal. Committed to the legacy of Conceptual art through artworks that materialise the troika of space, time and body, the FLR foundation can be counted among a handful of significant collections in Portugal that foreground a curatorial stance in shaping the collecting and preserving of artworks. By placing works in new contexts their lifespan is extended; accordingly, the exhibition curated by de Oliveira and Oxley expands upon the principle that art is never entirely finished, but remains in the process of making, an activity that requires engagement by artists, curators and audiences. Here, works by established and emerging Portuguese artists that form a strong backbone to the collection are contextualised by those of their international peers, pointing to an ever-evolving global art eco-system.
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