EL IMPERIO DE LA FICCIÓN / O IMPÉRIO DA FICÇÃO / THE EMPIRE OF FICTION

Exhibition catalogue, MEIAC, 2022

Ana Catarina Pinho

Catalogue of the exhibition "El Imperio de la Ficción" [The Empire of Fiction], presented at the Extremaduran and Latin American Museum of Contemporary Art (MEIAC), in Badajoz, Spain, from Sept 10, 2021 to Jan 24, 2022.

The exhibition "The Empire of Fiction" explores the fictional dimension inherent in the construction of the image of the Portuguese colonial empire and its historical-mythological essence, while at the same time rethinking the determining role played by the technical image in the perception of reality. The exhibition brings together the work of five Portuguese artists who reframe their national past through the appropriation of images produced during the New State (1933-1974), a Portuguese authoritarian and colonialist regime. These works reformulate the original narrative context of the images, coming both from institutional archives and from vernacular albums and collections of the time, through dialectical montages that cross heterogeneous times and produce critical proposals to rethink the heritage and traces of the dictatorial past.

Curator / Editorial manager

Ana Catarina Pinho

Contributing authors

Paula Ribeiro Lobo

Ana Cristina Cachola

Exhibited artists

Manuel Botelho

Daniel Barroca

Paulo Mendes

Susana de Sousa Dias

Filipa César

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Softcover | 164 pages | 40 ill. | 16 x 24 cm | CAS-ENG-PT MEIAC, 2022 ISBN 978-84-9852-706-3