{"id":26435,"date":"2024-09-08T12:46:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-08T11:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/?p=26435"},"modified":"2024-09-12T21:46:25","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T20:46:25","slug":"solo-exhibition-tropical-melancholy-or-the-island-that-lost-the-equator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/solo-exhibition-tropical-melancholy-or-the-island-that-lost-the-equator\/","title":{"rendered":"Solo exhibition | TROPICAL MELANCHOLY – Or the island that lost the Equator"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”5px”][vc_separator color=”black”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text]TROPICAL MELANCHOLY <\/strong>
\nOr the island that lost the Equator<\/strong><\/p>\n

By Daniel Blaufuks<\/p>\n

Opening: September 18, 2024 at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

Until November 9, 2024[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”26436″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text]\u00a9 BLAUFUKS[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]The new exhibition by Daniel Blaufuks (b. 1963), titled “Melancholia Tropical or the Island that Lost the Equator,” opens on September 18 at 6 PM at Hangar – Artistic Research Center.<\/p>\n

While working on the plantations of S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9, the visual artist realized that it is necessary to remember and study the long chapter of violent Portuguese colonization in this country, which is still often considered benevolent. “S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe was, at the beginning of the 20th century and for a brief year, the world’s largest exporter of cocoa. This apparent success was achieved through the exploitation not only of the plantations themselves but, above all, of the workers, the so-called servants, who were brought from other colonies, mainly from Cape Verde and Angola, with vague promises of return after five years, which rarely, if ever, materialized. Practically all contracts were signed with a cross, due to the workers’ inability to sign them or, obviously, to read them,” says Blaufuks.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_column_text]Daniel Blaufuks<\/strong> has worked on the relationship between public and private memory, a constant theme of inquiry in his work as a visual artist, pursued chiefly through photography and video and presented in installations, books and films.
\nIn 2007, he published Sob C\u00e9us Estranhos (Tinta-da-china) \u2013 based on his film Under Strange Skies from 2002 \u2013 which earned him the award for best photography book of the year in the international category at PhotoEspa\u00f1a. He was also awarded a prize in 2007 for his work about a concentration camp in the Czech Republic, additionally presented in the book Terez\u00edn (Steidl, 2010) and the film As If (2014). In 2016, he won the AICA\/MC\/Millennium BCP Visual Arts Award for the exhibitions Attempting Exhaustion and L\u00e9xico. More recently, he has published N\u00e3o Pai (Tinta-da-china, 2019) and Lisboa Clich\u00ea (Tinta-da-china, 2021). He has a PhD from the University of Wales, for which he wrote his thesis on the relationship of photography and cinema to the work of W. G. Sebald and Georges Perec and to the themes of memory and the Holocaust.
\nHis films \u2013 \u201cexpanded photographs\u201d \u2013 have been shown at various film festivals and his latest works examine the resistance to German occupation in Brittany and colonialism in S\u00e3o Tom\u00e9 and Pr\u00edncipe, as well as Continuing his ongoing non-diary The Days Are Numbered.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column width=”1\/5″][vc_single_image image=”2113″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/5″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

September 18th – November 9th 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":26437,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,165],"tags":[258,286],"class_list":["post-26435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-news","tag-2024-en","tag-previous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26435"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26535,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26435\/revisions\/26535"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hangar.com.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}