Solo exhibition by Hugo de Almeida Pinho
Performance by Luïza Luz
ACUD Galerie, Berlin - 11 Oct-5 Nov
https://acudmachtneu.de/events/2018/solar-capital-by-hugo-de-almeida-pinho/
Based on certain politics of visibility and invisibility that shape our historical and symbolic relationship with the sun, the exhibition Solar Capital by Hugo de Almeida Pinho, with the sound collaboration by Manuel Sékou, is an installation based on the complexities of solar capitalism, and its different implications and critical realities. Condemning a form of heliocentrism that develops procedures of marginality and appropriation, this installation creates a parallel between contemporary forms of connection between humans, the sun, and technology: the controversial structures of solar energy in the Moroccan region of Ouarzazate; the 'largest artificial sun in the world' created by a German company; and, the sun’s monitoring made by solar physicists to anticipate the occurrence of solar flares that can affect the use of our everyday technology. It’s thus an exhibition about social and political imaginaries that the solar express and determines for the present and the future.
With support by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Culture Moves – funded by the European Union and implemented by the Goethe-Institut.
Photo credits: @hdap
