School of Arts hosts an exhibition by Alice Miceli that portrays reality in conflict territories

“Em profundidade (campos minados): Angola e Bósnia” is the name of the new exhibition by Brazilian artist Alice Miceli, curated by Luiz Camillo Osorio, which will be on display in the Exhibition Room of the School of Arts of the Porto Regional Centre, of the Universidade Católica Portuguesa. The opening, scheduled for May 5, at 6:15 p.m, will include a moment of conversation between the artist and the curator, followed by a guided tour of the exhibition and an EA Dashed Concert by Beirut sound artist Mhamad Safa.

The artist's exhibition is based on capturing images in territories that have gone through conflict and with the existence of underground mines that remain active to this day even after peace has been declared. "Em profundidade (campos minados): Angola e Bósnia" is composed of four sets of images that complement each other, one in each Continent, namely in the countries: Cambodia, Bosnia, Colombia, and Angola. Two of these series, referring to Bosnia and Angola, will be exhibited at the School of Arts. The exhibition of this work comes precisely at a moment like the present, when there is a war going on in European territory with nuclear potential.

"There is no drama in the images, they look like prosaic landscapes and at the same time strange, intriguing. If the viewer passes quickly through them, they won't see anything. That's where the danger always lies. The imminent threat is in the details," says Luiz Camillo Osorio describing the exhibition.

This work unfolds an interrogation that was already very clear in the artist's previous project, about Chernobyl - that of finding some visibility for what threatens us concretely and that is not perceptible to the naked eye, nor even through the camera. It is precisely to transform this invisibility into images that the artist conceives for this exhibition.