If only I understood Portuguese … this film shows excepts from Filipa César’s piece ‘Porto 1975’ which is captivating film I watched a couple of weeks ago at the Newlyn Exchange Gallery. It is shot from a visitors perspecive of one of Alvaro Siza’s social housing projects.
Filipa Cesar’s Porto 1975, a lingering high definition portrait of Bouça, the social housing project in Porto, draws in at the end of the video many threads of its place in recent Portuguese political and social history; the revolution, SAAL, the subsequent fame of the architects and final completion of the estate 30 years later.
This film is currently showing as part of An Urban Silence at the Newlyn Exchange Gallery.
9th July - 17th September 201 at The Exchange
Portuguese artists use photography, video and painting to focus on urban spaces.
Each artist has taken a perspective of cities without citizens.
