From November 29 until July 4, the works will be on display in different exhibition centers around the Porto Campus of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa, namely in the Arts Building, the Restoration Building and the Atrium of the Central Building.
From the mid-1960s, with the spread of video technology, the appearance of the first portable cameras in common use and the consolidation of television as the main means of social communication, the moving image became central to the practices of artists all over the world, allowing them to explore new forms of creation beyond the production of objects and to question the boundaries between art and mass culture, between everyday life and artistic practice. The proliferation of new technologies and media has become vital in the development of contemporary art, in a process of mutual transformation through which, day after day, the entanglements of technology are questioned and the contours of artistic creation are redefined.
Technology/Transformation presents a selection of works from the Serralves Collection by artists who stood out in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for their pioneering use of video, new film formats and the first personal computers. The exhibition brings together historic works by key figures in the national and international art scene who explored the potential of these media as a way of rethinking the body in space, the limits of representation and language, and the codes and narratives underlying the media industry, demonstrating how art and technology have been mutually transfiguring.
Works by Ângelo de Sousa, Bruce Nauman, Dara Birnbaum, Joan Jonas, Keith Sonnier, Martha Rosler, Nam June Paik, Nancy Holt, Richard Serra, Sanja Iveković and Silvestre Pestana are presented.
This exhibition, curated by Joana Valsassina and Nuno Crespo, is part of the Serralves Collection's Itinerant Exhibitions Programme, which aims to make the Foundation's collection accessible to diverse audiences from all regions of the country and is organized as part of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa membership of the Serralves Foundation's Board of Founders.
