Joga o Jogo: Largada… (Start Line…)
Joga o Jogo: Largada… (Start Line…)
Curated by: Hugo Dinis
Largada… (Start Line…)... is the second part of the Play the Joga o Jogo (Game Cycle); It is the moment before the start of the race, the moment when preparations take place. This is how the curatorial project tests in the antechamber and in the two rooms of Forum Arte Braga various relationships, some obvious, others delirious, between the works on display from the Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection and the invited artist, Miguel Soares. If in the antechamber a pre-introduction to the game is established, it is in the two exhibition rooms that a pertinent dichotomy is reestablished: in the luminous first room, there is a reflection on the vitality and action implied in the artistic experience; in the gloomy second room, mortality and introspection are revealed, which are felt at that moment.
The Joga o Jogo cycle begin with Partida… (On Your Marks…), at the Museu das Artes de Sintra, between May and August 2025. The cycle ends with Fugida! (Running!), which will take place at the Centro de Artes de Águeda, between January and April 2026.
Caixa Geral de Depósitos Collection Artists
Ana Jotta, Ana Vidigal, Bruno Pacheco, Dayana Lucas, Francisco Tropa, Gaëtan, João Penalva, João Vieira, Joaquim Rodrigo, José Loureiro, José Pedro Croft, Júlia Ventura, Luisa Correia Pereira, Miguel Soares, Noronha da Costa
Invited Artist
Miguel Soares
Works from the Collections
Museu dos Biscainhos, Museu D. Diogo de Sousa
Partnership
Forum Arte Braga
Part of the programme
Braga 25 – Capital Portuguesa de Cultura Encontros da Imagem 2025
Support
República Portuguesa – Cultura | DGArtes – Direção Geral das Artes | RPAC – Rede Portuguesa de Arte Contemporânea