Dissemination
Conversation with Visual Artist Angelo Gonçalves to Take Place at the Sagres Fortress on October 19
The Centre for Contemporary Arts in the Sagres Fortress will host, as part of its programming, an open conversation with artist Angelo Gonçalves and the curators of the exhibition, Mirian Tavares and Pedro Cabral Santo, on October 19 at 3:00 p.m., inspired by the works featured in the exhibition “sangue na guelra.”
According to Visual Arts professor Susana Medeiros, “As every exhibition is an invitation to reflection, this is an opportunity not only to think collectively and open ourselves to new ideas, but also to raise questions about creative processes — particularly the creative process of artist Angelo Gonçalves, whose work involves a procedural practice using fragile and precarious materials, remnants and fragments, employing them as metaphors — ‘seismographs’ of the anxieties of our times.”
The exhibition opened on August 8, 2025, at the Sagres Fortress. The title “sangue na guelra” (literally “blood in the gills”) draws from a Portuguese expression that captures the essence of the show: it evokes, in the words of curator Mirian Tavares, “the fish [that], before dying, struggles, resists — its final gesture is one of defiance, not resignation.”
Embracing the provocative nature of artistic creation and its ability to confront society with the present moment and its disquietudes, Angelo Gonçalves’s exhibition is composed of precarious shelters made from remnants, waste, and fragments of an unsustainable world. By using these materials as the raw matter for artworks that invite us to reflect on the anxieties of our times, they acquire new layers of meaning.
“Angelo Gonçalves has sangue na guelra. (…) The artist does not sit idly by — he brings us the vivid red of the paint dripping through his works, the blood from the fishes’ gills that allows them, even if only for a brief instant, to resist.” (M. Tavares)
“sangue na guelra” is curated by Mirian Tavares and Pedro Cabral Santo, members of the Research Centre on Arts and Communication of the University do Algarve, and can be visited daily until November 16, 2025.
Opened to the public in 2022, the Centre for Contemporary Arts in the Sagres Fortress has become a landmark in the field of visual arts in southern Portugal. Through its temporary exhibitions, it seeks to foster interest in art and in issues relevant to contemporary society, establishing dialogues with the heritage of the Sagres Promontory and encouraging its creative potential in service of the community.
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