GUIDED TOUR TO THE EXHIBITION OSCAR MURILLO: TOGETHER IN OUR SPIRITS
Oscar Murillo: Together in Our Spirits
With Lauren Mendinueta, poet, essayist, art critic and university lecturer
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Bilhete Visita Orientada
Adulto residente em Portugal: 12€
Adulto não residente em Portugal: 15€
Entrada gratuita para crianças até aos 12 anos;
Desconto de 50% para Amigos de Serralves, jovens até aos 18 anos e maiores de 65 anos
Lauren Mendinueta is a Colombian poet and art critic living in Portugal for nearly two decades. Her visit to the OSCAR MURILLO: TOGETHER IN OUR SPIRITS, exhibition will take place on April 9, the 76th anniversary of the bloodiest and most pivotal date in Colombia's 20th Century history, the Bogotazo.
Oscar Murillo is known internationally for his unique way of addressing themes like community, social inequality and geopolitical tensions. Serralves invites you on this guided tour led by a poet who has lived through the violence in her homeland, knowing the many faces of migration and exile. Mendinueta proposes a singular way of seeing and feeling the pieces on display. Her visit is a journey into the poetry of the works on display; an encounter between words and images, in which individual history meets with collective history, stressing the importance of cultural activism in a world increasingly bereft of art and poetry.
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Lauren Mendinueta (Barranquilla, Colombia 1977). Poet, essayist, art critic and university lecturer. She works mainly in Portugal, where she resides since 2007. In 2011, Mendinueta won the “National Essay and Art Criticism Prize” awarded by Colombia’s Ministry of Culture, for her essay based on “Casa Viuda”, a series of sculptures by Colombian artist Doris Salcedo. In 2022, she attended an artistic residency at the Museu de Arte do Rio (MAR), as part of the Poetic Atelier Program sponsored by the Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI). Author of a dozen books in several genres, part of the author’s literary work bears witness to the political and social violence in her country, centering on her expanded memory of reality reconstructed around exile and gender marginalisation, among other themes. In Lisboa, Mendinueta has organized literary events for the José Saramago Foundation, OEI’s Ibero-American Poetry and Music Encounters and Ibero-American Literary White Night in Lisbon. Award-winning author, Mendinueta’s poetry is translated into six languages and has been published in several countries. She is regarded as one of the most outstanding poets of her generation in the Hispanic literary world.