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Deserted. Something that Happened May Happen Again, 2019
Solo exhibition Maria Trabulo with guest artists: Abbas Akhavan, Ana Kun, Bahman Kiarostami, Dora García, Flaka Haliti, Jeremiah Day, Loukia Alavanou, Melvin Moti, Pilvi Takala
curated by Pieternel Vermoortel Galeria Municipal do Porto, PT
Deserted, Something that happened may happen again emerged from the challenge proposed by Galeria Municipal do Porto to the artist Maria Trabulo to think about and discuss the place of fiction and shared histories in today’s social and political constructions. Assembling several perspectives of thought and artistic proposals, which will meet, cross and inhabit the installation created by Maria Trabulo in collaboration with Pieternel Vermoortel, the exhibition reflects on what might be the place and action of the artist in our evolving political landscape. How can we understand social and political participation through art, and how can art partake in the public debate? In this environment, an act of resistance might also require some fiction. - Guilherme Blanc, Director of Galeria Municipal do Porto
The possibility of making and telling the story of a revolution today, in light of the way that participation in the public space has changed over time, is the starting point for Deserted, Something that happened may happen again. As part of a new commission by the Galeria Municipal do Porto, the artist Maria Trabulo travelled to Tehran, to research a modern art collection whose public access has been extremely restricted since the 1979 revolution. Her position, role and the questions raised throughout the production process of this work inspired a set of conversations with fellow artists. In the exhibition, the image of the collection that the artist tries to shape through interviews with former museum employees and artists is intertwined with discussion about the role of artists in these complex political environments. The setting that Maria Trabulo created for the conversations is scenic and fake (a memory of a memory, a copy of a copy – scanned from the site, relocated in the country and then dispatched) as the place where artistic proposals interact and where the city holds its cultural assemblies and artists and audience can debate. As such, the exhibition wavers between the real and the fictitious, highlighting the vulnerable, yet incredibly agile, position of art. Digging the Desert is a newly commissioned work by Maria Trabulo that discusses the place occupied by fiction in contemporary social and political constructions. Who is the person making the visit – an artist, tourist or researcher? How do the people she meets talk about the objects hidden in plain sight? What do they remember? Through conversations and descriptions, the inaccessible collection renders itself visible, as an image of current, future and past politics. The exhibition explores how we can understand social and political participation through art, and how art can partake in the public debate while understanding its complex position, with the danger that existing antagonisms may be further extended. In this environment, an act of resistance might also require a certain degree of fiction. - Pieternel Vermoortel, curator
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Exhibition view at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019
Sculptural elements by Maria Trabulo
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Maria Trabulo, Digging the Desert, 2019
Aluminium cast over drawing on sand
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Exhibition View at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019
Sculptural Elements by Maria Trabulo
Video projections:
Dora García, Zimmer Gespräche, 2006
Video, single-channel, colour, 28’09’’
Melvin Moti, No Show, 2004
Video, 24’16’’
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Maria Trabulo, Modern Mirage (detail), 2019
The entrance to Persepolis, to the TMoCA (Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art), to a nation's Parliament, an EU Member State, or the EU itself, and that we climb up and down, thereby mimicking recurring times and actions. Cardboard covered in sand
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Maria Trabulo, Assembly in the Desert I, 2019
Replica of the main staircase of the ancient city of Persepolis. It precedes the entrance portal that leads to the room where meetings with the royal family took place. From the series, Structures of Assembly and Debate. The object can be used to observe the desert from the top; to sit during a screening, for conversation or a performance; for official city council meetings and public announcements; or other uses to be attributed during the exhibition. MDF covered in sand
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Maria Trabulo, Assembly in the Desert I, 2019
Replica of the main staircase of the ancient city of Persepolis. It precedes the entrance portal that leads to the room where meetings with the royal family took place. From the series, Structures of Assembly and Debate. The object can be used to observe the desert from the top; to sit during a screening, for conversation or a performance; for official city council meetings and public announcements; or other uses to be attributed during the exhibition. MDF covered in sand
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Jeremiah Day, The chair remains empty / But the place is set, 2016
Quaker Meeting House – Istanbul Forums (Performance Notation – October 20, 2016 Volksbühne/UDK) Ink on paper
A Different Us – Grüner Salon (Performance Notation – October 20 2016 Volksbühne/UDK) Ink on paper
Letter To Turkey – Return To Sender (Performance Notation – October 20, 2016 Grüner Salon Volksbühne) Ink on paper
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Maria Trabulo, Assembly in the Desert II, 2019
Replica of an amphitheatre that was commonly used in Ancient Rome for public gatherings and senate meetings. From the series, Structures of Assembly and Debate. Within the public program of the exhibition, it was used for public readings; to listen to the sound piece Assembly in the Desert; for conversations and performance pieces; for official meetings and public or private announcements; and other uses attributed during the exhibition.
MDF covered in sand
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Maria Trabulo, Contemporary Mirage, 2019
Handheld scans of replicas of the pillars of the ancient city of Persepolis, that ornate the main entrance to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran. Digital print on cardboard, sand
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Exhibition view at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019
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Maria Trabulo, Contemporary Mirage, 2019
Handheld scans of replicas of the pillars of the ancient city of Persepolis, that ornate the main entrance to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Tehran. Digital print on cardboard, sand
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Pilvi Takala, Event on Garnethill, 2005
Artist book, 32 pages, edition of 200
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Maria Trabulo, The Museum and the Bunker in the Desert, 2019
Sculptures in sand. Pedestals, podiums and other displays for art and figures of power and public achievements, found in the desert
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Exhibition view at Galeria Municipal do Porto, 2019
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Maria Trabulo, Digging the Desert, 2019
Video, FHD, 16:9, color, sound, 95’
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Pilvi Takala, Real Snow White, 2009
Video, colour, 16:9, 9’18’’
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