Margarida Correia
Other
Wednesday 30 September · until 5 Oct
Artist Margarida Correia presents a new exhibition in which, through interviews and collected material, she portrays the parachute nurses of the Portuguese army who served in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, recovering little-known individual and collective memories.
The artist investigates, especially through photography, the personal and institutional archives of specific communities, which she presents in exhibitions and through catalogues of great graphic richness. In recent years, she has been working on the memory of some Portuguese emigrant communities in the USA. One of these exhibitions (at Cinzeiro 8, Museu de Electricidade, 2011), entitled New World Parkville, resulted in a catalogue acclaimed by critics. Her new proposal addresses an issue that runs across contemporary art, related to some historical questions of post-colonialism. Through interviews and the collection of material, the artist literally portrays a group of parachute nurses of the Portuguese army who served in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Scenes from their professional lives and their daily life in Africa, moments of work and leisure. Once again, the aim is to record, recover and fix the individual and collective memories of a professional group that has been little studied and little known. Wednesday to Monday, from 10h to 19h. Technical sheet: Curated by João Pinharanda.