Exhibition “Transa_Baladas do último sol” by Portuguese artist Ângela Berlinde
On September 26, Espacio Jhannia Castro, in Porto, presented the exhibition “Transa_Baladas do último sol” by Portuguese artist Ângela Berlinde. The event is part of the circuit of simultaneous inaugurations by Miguel Bombarda.
Ângela Berlinde dives into her archive to extract poetic and political forms and functions from the cartographic conjuncture that led her to inhabit, in the last decade, two lands intrinsically connected by the expansionism of modern history: her homeland, Portugal, and Brazil.
TRANSA gives the name to Ângela Berlinde‘s show at Espacio Jhannia Castro and appears as a motto for a reflection on contemporary existence, threatened by the limbo and brutality of the colonization processes that are now reversing.
In the vastness of the Amazon rainforest, TRANSA invites us to an aesthetic and existential dance through the hybridity of photography and surprises us with indigenous myths and tales, which is a personification of the creative and fruitful grace of nature. In this crossing, in the encounter with the original communities thrown to the edges of the world, reflections vibrate about the concept of the Man who lives detached from the Earth, that suppresses the diversity, that denies the plurality of the forms of life.
The artist and researcher in the field of hybrid photography, Ângela Berlinde is interested in the artist’s place in these dark times and calls for a resignification of the present time, in a poetic attempt to capture the irreversible course of time and all the brutal events that remain to mark the course of history. He says he seeks to “shake the waters of an Earth in Transe and dare an imaginary transgressor on the place of the artist, who lives permanently on the edge of the abyss”.
Without fear of the dark, Ângela Berlinde brings to the field of art the political gesture of propagating allegories that hover in limbo, not only between the documentary and the fictional but between times, between stories and geographies, between past and future, between Portugal and Brazil.
