Sérgio Taborda

Sérgio Taborda’s practice has been developed in parallel with the activity of study and investigation, occurring interceptions between them. Currently, he is an artist-researcher resident at Arsenal – Institut for film and video-art film, in Berlin (within a post-doctoral investigation scholarship by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia – FCT), researching in the film and video archives.

Questions related with image perception, more specifically with the notion of event, are central lines. Most recent video works, presented at Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon, incorporate certain elements: a short duration; the projection in a cinema room; the viewing in sessions; the sequence; the interval.

Taborda started showing his works, in sculpture and drawing, in the mid 80s, concentrating in site-specific installations with the musician Luís Bragança Gil, exploring the connection among drawing, sculpture, image and sound. At the end of the 90s, his practice is orientated by other concerns, starting from the international symposiums of drawing, residencies in the village of Feital, Portugal, where the artists work with drawing, in a close relation with the place. There he produces a body of work in drawing and video which is at the origin of a renovation of his way of doing things, concentrated now on in those mediators – drawing and video.

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Solo Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2013 — works in video, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2012 — Trabalhos em vídeo, Lisboa. Berlim 2001-2011, Cinemateca Portuguesa – Museu do Cinema, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2009 — Peso para livro aberto, Nouvelle Librairie Française, Institut Franco – Portugais, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2008 — pano e nuvem, Rua Rosa Araújo, 19, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2007 — Scanning, Cinema S. Jorge, Lisbon Village Festival, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2014 — Rosa Luxemburg street 15, Berlin, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2016 — Acções-Desenhos, Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal

Group Exhibitions (selection)

  • 2015 — O que é um acontecimento?, Culturgest, Lisboa, Portugal
  • 2012 — shapes and forces, Galeria Quadrado Azul, Porto, Portugal
  • 2010 — 1990/2010 Sala do Veado Cabinet d’Amateur, Museu Nacional de História Natural, Lisbon, Portugal
  • 2009 — Exterminios, Centro Cultural Emmerico Nunes, Sines, Portugal
  • 2012 — knell dobre glas, aleria Quadrado Azul, Lisbon/ Porto, Portugal
  • 2008 — Articulações, Allgarve, project coordinated by Fundação de Serralves, Faro, Portugal
  • 2011 — Never odd or Even, colaboration in a project by Marianna Castillo Deball – Never odd or Even Volume II, Grimmmuseum, Berlin, Germany
  • 2008 — Le revolver à cheveux blancs, Musée de L’objet, Blois, Paris, France

Collections

  • , Cinemateca Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • , Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • , Fundação EDP, Lisbon, Portugal
  • , Museu Dr. Santos Rocha, Figueira da Foz, Portugal

Works

Poema com peso para livro aberto, 2012

Reading-performance

Image credits: Teresa Santos / Pedro Tropa

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