Erasing the Line
Exhibition October 26 — December 03, 2023
local Museu do Porto - Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão, Gabinete Triplex, Porto
curador Ivo Poças Martins
Core Programme
The contour of a river bank, the horizon line, the line of the ‘glass half full’ are inventions. The oceans are all interconnected, in a continuous mass, as are the rivers and the streams, and so on and so forth throughout the land. If there are no lines, how can we delimit territories? Or, in other words, if everything is connected, if everything moves constantly and appears to us with different degrees of invisibility, what will be its relevant geography? There are so many different waters: fresh and salt water; drinking water, irrigation and cleaning water; water courses that serve as a means of transport and a home for so many forms of life; or water that has devastating force. We are therefore taking a radical approach by choosing a single location — Cabedelo do Douro — to try to discern many of these issues and identify the multiple lines (or stains, or colours) that allow them to be represented and that are connected to so many other places and beings.
Exhibition Opening: 26.10.2023 - 4 pm
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Museu do Porto — Palacete dos Viscondes de Balsemão / Gabinete Triplex
Praça de Carlos Alberto 71, 4050-157 Porto
Tuesday to Sunday
10:00 — 17:30
Ivo Poças Martins is an architect whose work blurs the boundaries between building design, construction, curating and exhibition design, writing and academic research. He has participated in curatorial projects with several cultural and architectural institutions such as arc en rêve, Casa da Arquitectura, FAUP's Centre for Architecture and Urbanism Studies, CIAJG, the Casa de Mateus Foundation, CCB's Garagem Sul, the Porto Museum (Museu do Porto), Storefront, the Lisbon Architecture Triennale and Z33.
Ivo co-founded Friendly Fire, an architecture fanzine and collective, and was on the editorial board of Jornal-Arquitectos between 2013-15. He was assistant curator of the programme for the fourth edition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2016), co-curator of the 2017 edition of Open House Porto and of the ArchiSummit 2019 programme. He is currently working on his doctoral thesis at the School of Architecture, Arts and Design at the University of Minho with a research grant from the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia.