Installation, 157 x 170 x 120 cm.
©image: Catarina Oliveira
Collection: Collection M HKA, Antwerp (Inv. no. BK7831_M526).
The work Curfew is based on a similar sculpture made by the Luena tribes of Dundo in what is now north-eastern Angola. The work and its title reflect two of the roles that Barateiro plays as an artist. The word curfew is an English corruption of the French couvre-feu, ‘cover your fire’. It is a moment of enforced quiet in an imposed state of exception, such as the austerity politics that Portuguese society is now being subjected to. The half-animal, with its intense gaze, might represent a short-circuiting of what we think we are seeing.
Add to your list> Pedro Barateiro.
> Exhibition: Recent acquisitions. M HKA, Antwerp, 14 August 2015 - 31 January 2016.
> Exhibition: Don't You Know Who I Am? – Art After Identity Politics. M HKA, Antwerp, 13 June 2014 - 14 September 2014.
> Ensemble: Aanwinsten 2014 [Acquisitions 2014].
> Ensemble: NUCLEUS.