Like Tears in Rain

The exhibition invites twelve national and international artists who each will present works specifically produced for this project, throughout the space. Absence is the leitmotiv behind the research for the project. The concept of presence within absence has been a particular focus, especially in spaces where life is sensed through material objects or traces left by human life.

People grasp for eternity through memory, since it is the most valid way of being remembered, but the greatest anguish in life is exactly the one referred in the title of this exhibition – all the moments one has, will disappear, Like Tears in Rain.1

It is impossible to separate notions of death, absence and memory. The invited artists have been asked to look at and produce works beginning with this idea. 

ChunTeng Chu | Cildo Meireles | Carlos Contente | Susana Mendes Silva | Marius Engh | Damián Ortega | Carlos Garaicoa | Marjolaine Ryley | João Louro | Nedko Solakov | Euan Macdonald | Francisco Tropa

The opening will take place on Friday the 11th of June at 18:00 in the Youth Foundation’s ‘Palácio das Artes’.

image | Damián Ortega

Recorridos, 2002 

Set of 6 Digital Prints (detail)

Courtesy of the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City