A Máquina Lírica: Luisa Strina Gallery
"A Máquina Lírica" (The Lyrical Machine) is all about the artists gathered here seeking to have, in the fabulation, an enterprise of health: the possibility of life.
"It is not unusual, in 2021, to note our frequent inability to distinguish between reality and fiction. The fact is that the present sounds delirious: there is no agreement left regarding basic social facts, the parameters for reading reality have expired, and the democratic pact seems increasingly distant. If the current power project is delirious in its own way, fantasy also exists as a propositional force. It is imagination, after all, that expands the negotiable horizons of the possible and asserts itself as a social practice essential for the construction of collective identities, affirming itself as a fundamentally political operation. Even for this reason, the artists gathered here seek to have in the fabulation an enterprise of health: possibility of life."
Fragment of the text by Pollyana Quintella for the exhibition.
Curated by Pollyana Quintella. Panmela Castro participates with the works of the series "Self-Referential Cult". Exhibition photos: Edouard Fraipont
After a year of social isolation, Panmela, who lives alone, decides to spend some time in people's houses and creates the series Residence. Before going to live in Lu's house, Jandira's mother - social activist and long time friend of Panmela, besides being one of the founders of Rede Nami - Panmela does a quarantine at NACO (Núcleo de Artes do Centro Oeste).
Alone in the residence space, Panmela produces a new series of Penumbras on a full moon day. Soon a rumor would be born that a woman with long full hair was walking through the village naked. This rumor spread, and Panmela somehow ended up becoming a new folk legend.
