The opening of Ayni: Casa de Chá | Tea House exhibition will take place at Brotéria on the 11th January, 2024, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The exhibition which can be visited during the working hours of Brotéria from 11th to 27th of January, 2024, inaugurates the Ayni, theorems of reciprocity project, which is a set of five project rooms at Brotéria, Antecâmara, HANGAR and Universidade Católica Portuguesa that will feature works by Rita Ferreira, Igor Jesus, LANDRA – Sara Rodrigues and Rodrigo Camacho, The Third Thing – Nithya Iyer and Vlad Mizikov, and Jabulani Maseko.
In Ayni: Casa de Chá | Tea House, artist Rita Ferreira proposes to engage with the aesthetic and functional dimensions of Broteria’s Reading Room, as well as explore the tension between the notions of originality and reproduction. The artist’s painting lies on the surface of a large table, beneath a layer of protective glass. This translucent horizontal surface opens a window into the past and functions as a mirror of the present, inviting the inhabitants of the space to take notice and act upon the artwork. Here, Ferreira’s archive – meaningful or trivial forms and objects collected over time – undergoes a process of abstraction that seeks to fixate the fluid and destabilize the still.
Rita Ferreira was born in Obidos in 1991 and is currently residing and working in Lisbon. She obtained a BA in Painting at the Lisbon School of Fine Arts (University of Lisbon). In 2023, Rita Ferreira was one of the finalists of the Amadeo Souza-Cardoso Prize and was also one of the finalists in 2022 of the EDP New Artists Prize.
Curated by students of the MA and PhD programmes in Cultural Studies, The Lisbon Consortium, Universidade Católica Portuguesa, in the framework of the seminar in Curatorship, coordinated by Luísa Santos. Support: República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGARTES – Direção-Geral das Artes.
Learn more about the project on our website, and our instagram @ayni_theoremsofreciprocity.
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