The importance of Light in the exhibition Distant Lights by Nuno Cera

The title of the exhibition Distant Lights opens the doors to the rather complex history of Portugal, built on the expectations of what comes and goes, from and towards the ocean. A story of global and distant, sometimes violent, relationships is significantly anchored to the small town of Sines.

Contrasts as a distinctive sign

Sines is in the familiar landscape of the artist Nuno Cera, and his works, hosted in the exhibition curated by the studio of interior design projects and exhibition BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Zamarbide), harmoniously converse with this city full of contrasts. Just think about how today the Portuguese city has changed the physicality of the ancient wooden ships led by Vasco de Gama, originally from the same place, with submarine cables carrying masses of data at maximum power.

Opening and hermeticism of artistic spaces

"Space, like countries and politics, is not neutral. White and architectural neo-minimalism has nothing to do with neutrality." (BUREAU)
Distant Lights is hosted within the Centro de Arte de Sines, a museum that embraces with its structure the protective vocation towards art and knowledge: exceptional spaces that are exceptionally and wonderfully hermetic.

Undefined Spaces

The architecture of the Museum focuses on light. Nuno Cera inscribes himself in space, but, as suggested by the title of his exhibition, in his works we will deal with another type of light, distancing or escaping from any preconceived and overly determined definition of a specific field.

Light guides the viewer and their perception of spaces

The Centro de Arte de Sines is a 1:1 scale model of a "wonderland", where, following Alice in ... Architecture, one immerses oneself in a protected space to daydream with open eyes in the light. The "ultrathining" proposed by BUREAU as a compositional element of the installation is the act of helping the visitor to change their scale of perception, entering the model and wandering through it, descending into the rabbit hole to find Nuno's world and challenge the scalar "gravity", adapting perception to the very different situations to which the works refer, continuously zooming in at different scales, adjusting the focus on what the images have to offer and propose.

Gallery

Exhibition design for the rich body of work by Nuno Cera, Distant Lights, in Sines

Designers credits
Project: BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta, Galliane Za
marbide)
Concept design: Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta
Project Execution: Carine Pimenta, Amir Halabi
Construction supervision: Carine Pimenta, Amir Halabi
Publication drawings: Amir Halabi
Context: Nuno Cera solo exhibition
Curators: José Mouro, Julia Albani
Graphic design: Paulo Freitas
Partners: MAAT - Museum of art, Architecture and Technology

PEOPLE

BUREAU (Daniel Zamarbide, Carine Pimenta and Galliane Zamarbide)

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