Dissemination
Exhibition “Geographies of Water” on view from 23 January 2026 in Loulé
The exhibition “Geographies of Water”, curated by Mirian Tavares, vice-coordinator of CIAC, and João Serrão, a researcher at the Centre and a PhD student in Digital Media-Art, opens on 23 January 2026 at 6:00 p.m. at the Art Gallery of the Convento do Espírito Santo, in Loulé.
Part of the DESAGUAR project, the exhibition will be on view from 23 January to 14 March 2026 and features works by Ana Maria Pintora, Bertílio Martins, João Amado, Margarida Andrade, Milita Doré, and Patrícia Oliveira.
DESAGUAR is a project of artistic creation, mediation, and circulation that crosses margins and challenges centres, bringing together three territories whose identities are intertwined with water — Vila Nova de Cerveira, Loulé, and São Miguel — through a network of relationships and bridges between artistic practices and peripheral contexts.
It proposes a plural approach to water: as a symbolic presence, an ecological resource, and a channel of displacement — physical, affective, or identitarian. Present in rituals, cosmologies, and in the geography of bodies and landscapes, water carries a symbolic power that cuts across cultures. In DESAGUAR, this dimension is interwoven with the urgencies of the present through practices that think with places and the flows — visible and invisible — that shape them.
Through residencies, workshops, and exhibitions, six artists immerse themselves in unfamiliar territories in order to inhabit their rhythms and temporalities, creating from sources — material and immaterial — that define each place. The resulting works are sensitive deposits of stories and concerns, where the project’s geopoetics invokes both gestures of subsistence and the solemnity of ritual. Here, DESAGUAR subverts the centre–periphery dichotomy, proposing fluid thinking and a circuit of listening in which water ceases to be mere scenery and becomes an agent and a shared language.
DESAGUAR is coordinated by the Cerveira Art Biennial Foundation (FBAC), in partnership with Arquipélago – Contemporary Arts Centre (A-CAC) and the Municipal Art Galleries of Loulé, with the support of RPAC – Project Support Programme 2023.
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