ENDLESS SUN : Capital Blindness by Hugo de Almeida Pinho

curatorial project by PAULO MENDES

Contemporary dystopia is certified at every moment.

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Endless Sun is an artistic research project by Hugo de Almeida Pinho on the idea of solar policies and their critical implications, accounting for on various aspects, like energy, biopolitics and technology.

The exhibition Endless Sun: Capital Blindness, presented at Carpintarias de São Lázaro, is part of a broader exhibition project consisting of another exhibition presented at the same time, Endless Sun: The Cinematic Sunrise, at gnration in Braga, as well as a public program with a performance component, a symposium and a screening.

As Hugo de Almeida Pinho says: “The sun is a medial element in the collective imagination, as a cultural configuration, authority and spiritual impulse, carrying an important ideological and biopolitical power. Its energy keeps the planet functional, regulating the metabolic rhythms of plants and animals, but in its dialectical relationship with planet Earth, it is a vital element of a contemporary global capital that translates into technological and economic power. Constituting one of the most urgent issues in the current context of international geopolitics, energy can be used as a mechanism to promote certain forms of authoritarianism, neo-colonialism, autocratic systems, or climate crises.”

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As a community, we are witnessing, lulled by trendy slogans and temporary marketing strategies, the environmental collapse and the heightening of global geopolitical tensions, in a convergence of factors favoring a risky scenario for humanity, where the energy crisis and control over energy production is decisive.

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The catastrophe of time is certified at every moment.

Paulo Mendes