Gnration, the Centro Internacional das Artes José de Guimarães (CIAJG), in Guimarães, and Solar - Galeria de Arte Cinemática, in Vila do Conde, joined to promote the 10th edition of Pós-Laboratórios de Verão, which brings a range of new perspectives on contemporary art.

After a residency at gnration and CIAJG, the selected artists will present their new works in installation or performance format in the usual Pós-Laboratórios de Verão exhibition, which this year will be curated by writer, researcher, and curator David Revés. The four works exhibited include the performance +/-, by João Carlos Pinto + João Miguel Braga Simões + José Diogo Martins (presented on 8 September at gnration), and the audiovisual installations by Sally Santiago and the duos Sofia Morim + Filipe Carvalho and Francisca Miranda + Inês Leal.

Consonâncias Efémeras, by Sofia Morim + Filipe Carvalho

Through two installations that integrate video projection, objects, sculpture, and sound, the work explores the broad symbolic and material connections between humans and water. Inspired by Masaru Emoto's observations in 'Hidden Messages in Water', Sofia Morim and Filipe Carvalho propose a reflection on the nature of this relationship, inviting the public to inhabit almost hypnotic environments, where a refined exercise of balances, suspensions, amplifications, reflections, projections, and light refractions trigger and expand different rhythms, oscillations, sonorities, shapes, textures and visual patterns of the water that flows in the space.

Crónicas visuais de onde não estive, by Sally Santiago

Sally Santiago uses the childhood stories of people from older generations to present a reflection on the different aspects of fictional and narrative space. Referring to events between 1945 and 1950 on an Atlantic island, three episodes serve as the basis to develop the three chronicles presented here, through the construction of particular realities. This piece seeks to explore the gap between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible, leading the viewer to exercise remembrance, projection, and reconstruction of their own memory.

Ouroboros, by Francisca Miranda + Inês Leal

This project by Francisca Miranda and Inês Leal presents an audiovisual installation that combines two videos and a sound piece. Based on the connection between the concept of soundbite - a petit phrase or sound bite - and the ancient expression banha da cobra, the artists move between devices for captivating and controlling individual and collective thought generated by certain contemporary political discourses and media agents, to search for other associations, images, languages, and sounds. Claiming an aesthetic evocative of the television screen and broadcasting, and thus reminiscent of the family and domestic space, Ouroboros creates a landscape between the illusion of the circus spectacle and the camouflage of the predatory animal.

Three installations to see for free until 14 September at gnration.