Seminar “A Curadoria como profanação” by David Revés

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On April 21, at 2:30pm, in A3 classroom, the Seminar “Curation as profanation” is held by David Revés*.

*David Revés [1992, PT] is an independent curator, writer, and researcher based between Portugal and Sweden. He holds a Master’s in Artistic Studies (Porto University) and a Post-graduation in Communication Sciences — Contemporary Cultures and New Technologies (NOVA University). He is the founder of METANOIA, a nomadic project that will develop a program of exhibitions, seminars, and periodical publications around extinction crises, and speculative languages, from 2023 on. As a curator, he has developed exhibition projects for several institutions, such as Alfaia, Loulé; Frappant Gallery, Hamburg; Museu Municipal de Faro; DIDAC Foundation and Igrexa da Universidade, both in Santiago de Compostela; Casa da História Judaica, Elvas; and Galeria Uma Lulik__, Appleton, Fundação Leal Rios, Rua das Gaivotas 6, Fundação Arpad Szenes — Vieira da Silva, Galeria Liminare, Carpintarias de São Lázaro, Casa do Capitão, all in Lisbon. He was chief curator and programmer at Galeria Painel, Porto, fellow curator at DIDAC Foundation, Santiago de Compostela, ES, and part of the curatorial team as head of exhibitions of CINENOVA — Interuniversity Film Festival. As a researcher/critic, he has worked with some Portuguese key institutions such as the National Museum Soares dos Reis, BoCA — Biennial of Contemporary Arts, and Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. In 2022, he has organized the residency project “Towards the Planetary” at Alfaia Association, Loulé, providing an encounter between artists, artisans, curators, and other authors under the theme of nature, technology, and the Planetary. David regularly develops a critical and essayistic activity with which he collaborates for specialized magazines, artist books, scholarly editions, talks, and seminars. His texts have been published in DARDOmagazine [Spain], Floating Projects [China], ExibartMagazine [Italy], and BoCA blog [Portugal]. He is a regular contributor to Contemporânea Magazine [Portugal] since 2015.

Image: Jacques-Fabien Gautier-D’Agoty, Os olhos, o nervo óptico e o cérebro.
In Exposition anatomique des organes des sens, 1775.