Margarida Correia

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Monday 28 September · until 5 Oct

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Margarida Correia portrays a group of Portuguese army paratrooper nurses who served in Africa in the 1960s and 70s, recording individual and collective memories of a little-known professional group in a work that engages with post-colonialism.

The artist investigates, especially through photography, personal and institutional archives of specific communities, which she presents in exhibitions and through catalogues of great graphic richness. In recent years, she has worked on the memory of some communities of Portuguese emigrants in the USA. One of these exhibitions (at Cinzeiro 8, Museu de Electricidade, 2011), entitled New World Parkville, resulted in a catalogue distinguished by critics. Her new proposal addresses an issue that cuts 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 paratrooper nurses of the Portuguese army who served in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Scenes of their professional lives and everyday life in Africa, moments of work and leisure. Once again, the aim is to record, recover and fix individual and collective memories of a professional group little studied and little known. Wednesday to Monday, from 10am to 7pm. Technical sheet: Curated by João Pinharanda.