Curating, a specialization of general ideas? *
Lilou Vidal | Independent curator and editor
04 Jun., 17h
CAN A102 (NOVA, Campus de Campolide)
*lecture in English, without simultaneous translation
Ernesto de Sousa defined himself as a “specialist of general ideas”. This expression is relevant today regarding the approach of curating inspired by the inclusiveness and decoloniality of the imaginary. It points out his desire to enlarge the academic approach and the need to deconstruct the classical hierarchization of the arts and its history.
Lilou Vidal will address the centenary exhibition of the artist Ernesto de Sousa she is curating which will take place in two venues of Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Galeria Quadrum and Galeria da Índia, from 13 de November 2021 to 27 February 2022. This exhibition is based on Ernesto de Sousa’s legacy as an artist, poet, curator and filmmaker, and it will explore his work and his archive through an intergenerational and transhistorical dialogic approach.
Lilou Vidal is an independent curator and editor based in Brussels and Turin. She is the founder and director of the non-profit organization Bureau des Réalités. She has been recently nominated to curate the 22nd edition of the Fondation Pernod Ricard Prize (Paris, 2020-21) and the centenary monographic exhibition of Ernesto de Sousa at Galerias Municipais in Lisbon (2021). She organized several monographic and group exhibitions and she has worked as a curator at Kunsthalle Wien. She has edited several books and monographs and works regularly with publishers and magazines such as Sternberg Press, Paraguay Press, NERO, H ART. She taught the Actuality of the Arts at the National School of Visual Arts of La Cambre (ENSAV), Brussels. She is also a guest lecturer at HISK, Ghent, a member of the CNAP Committee, Paris and of the IKT. She is a consultant for the IHA Research Group ArtTHC.