Pandemic - I Don’t Know Karate, But I Know Ka-Razor!
Event
Pandemic takes us to a zero-degree state to confront the fragility and finitude of the body, disease and sanity, and the human struggles rooted in the world and in nature. This exhibition is the result of an invitation made by Galeria Municipal do Porto to the artist Filipe Marques to question viral concepts. In his work, the artist starts from apocalyptic poetry to lead us, as spectators, to learn about the powerlessness of the human condition and to an attempt to control invisible contaminations or a balance of forces and resistances.
Filipe Marques studied in Portugal and Germany, and his work develops from the theories of modern philosophers and writers of Classical Antiquity, in an attempt to understand Humanity and the construction of a God. He uses anachronistic devices with images of people and places, re-enacting ruined urban landscapes and plundered museographies, and revisiting metaphors about failures and self-destructions that, as an artist, he does not want to escape.
Filipe Marques studied in Portugal and Germany, and his work develops from the theories of modern philosophers and writers of Classical Antiquity, in an attempt to understand Humanity and the construction of a God. He uses anachronistic devices with images of people and places, re-enacting ruined urban landscapes and plundered museographies, and revisiting metaphors about failures and self-destructions that, as an artist, he does not want to escape.
