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RESPONSE TO BRIEF #7

Platform for (un)Solicited Research and Advice
(Lauren Alexander, Lado Darakhvelidze, Jimini Hignett, Anna Hoetjes, Jeroen Marttin, Eva Olthof, Julio Pastor and Patrícia Sousa)

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VISIT

Patrícia Sousa

[KODACHROME NR.22]

Patrícia Sousa

I could mention several different things that have surprised me for this or that, for more or less logical reasons. Having to think of one I decided to choose this image. It is for me a beautiful image.

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BE PRETTY AND VOTE

Patricia Sousa

Sois Belle Et Vote (‘Be Pretty and Vote’ ) was a sentence used for a political advertising campaign that took place in Lebanon in 2009 by the occasion of the parliamentary elections.
Together with this sentence the billboards showed an image of

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2019

Patrícia Sousa


“(…) FROM SUCH FORMULATED PLATFORMS

Patrícia Sousa

“(…) From such formulated platforms we can relate to other spaces and spheres indicating that biennials are not predominantly to be seen as utopias, but rather as heterotopias, capable of maintaining several contradictory representations within a single space.”

Simon Sheikh
in ‘Marks of Distinction, Vectors of Possibility’

It is clear that biennials, triennials, art fairs, as art events are, undoubtedly, part of an
economic system dominated by structures of power that seek not only to brand a new
place or event but also to contribute for the legitimization of a particular art world and its
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