Folksongs and Footnotes

The exhibition ‘Folksongs and Footnotes’ by Daniel Malhão is part of the PRATA DA CASA project.
From the scale of the neighbourhood to the street and the detail of a building. From a wide angle to a zoom. The motivation came from a long-standing urge: to photograph the neighbourhood and the city of Lisbon, focusing on buildings and urban details. This look is more attentive to buildings considered “interesting”, not for their beauty or architectural quality, but for their uniqueness, one or other detail, line or personality trait. For the potential of fiction.

PRATA DA CASA is a collective creative project that aims to portray the people and territory of a part of the city of Lisbon (Anjos-Arroios), based on the relationship between the artists who live there and the surrounding social and cultural fabric. Focused around the idea of community, it is a “photographic” reflection on the individual history of each person in relation to the collective and community history of their neighbourhood. The end result of this process, revealed in an exhibition (galleries and various local public spaces) and in a book, will be a possible x-ray of a landscape that has been changing rapidly in recent years. PRATA DA CASA is a project by Associação Número – Arte e Cultura, with the artistic direction of José Luís Neto and the participation of Claudia Fischer, Daniel Malhão, Isabel Aboim Inglez, Luciana Fina, Pedro Loureiro, Rui Viana Pereira and the A Ilha collective, a partner in the project along with Antecâmara, Duplex and Passevite, among other structures. The organisation has the support of the Portuguese Republic – Culture / Directorate-General for the Arts, the Municipality of Lisbon and the Arroios Parish Council.

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Organisation:

Antecâmara + Número – Arte e Cultura

Support:
MC / DGArtes

Institutional support:
CML
JFA