With... Adam Sargant
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It's our last episode of series 1!!! Expect ghost, ghouls and lots of
laughs as we round off the series with Adam Sargant, AKA Haunted Haworth.
We'll be...
2 days ago
Beginning with a teaser of a prologue, from the very outset this biography reads more like a novel. In fact, it reads like a Gothic romance, a cross between Jane Eyre and The Mysteries of Udolpho, complete with patriarchal villains, madness, incarceration and a sympathetic heroine. Yet the facts of this story are, incredibly, true. (Maria Takolander)
Witney Wade: How have you resisted all these years?J.C.: I’m not the type to let myself down, that’s what saved me. But I thought of my favorite novelists like Emily Brontë, who undoubtedly had more difficulty imposing her vision on her time than I did. I always told myself that no one could steal from me, nor what I had to say, nor what I was suffering inside of me. And I always refused to give up, because I knew that if I gave in, it would be over for me. You wouldn’t see me direct superhero movies, even if you offered me a fortune! I found the same design on Julia Docornau. She was the one who gave me the Lumiere Prize in Lyon.
No doubt in the 60s feminism was my faith. I know I grabbed the books as fast as they were printed: Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, Paule Marshall, June Jordon, Toni Morrison, Margaret Atwood. And those that were history rediscovered: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Anne Bradstreet, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Brontë, Zora Neale Hurston. By god, we were women and we were going to “dream of a common language” and save the world. (Lynn Martin)
1. Saudades, Galeria 111, LisboaAartista radicada em Londres tem fortes ligações à galeria fundada por Manuel de Brito (1928-2005), e Saudades assume-se como homenagem tintada pela amizade. São perto de três dezenas de obras, abrangendo temas diversos, técnicas, e histórias pessoais da família Rego, de 1980 (desde Girl and Dog) até aos anos mais recentes (caso de Maria Madalena, 2017). A exposição é uma cápsula temporal, aferindo a transformação do seu traço naturalista e figurativo, a expressividade dos corpos em séries como a dedicada a Jane Eyre de Charlote Brontë, as cenas autobiográficas que revelam a doença prolongada do marido da artista, Victor Willing (1928-1988), os apontamentos surpreendentes – como Futebolista (2010), com uma Paula Rego em poses desportivas; ou as três obras marcantes dedicadas a Maria Madalena, pinturas recuperadas do ciclo da Virgem Maria (Anunciação, 2002), que remetem para a voz (ou a falta dela) das mulheres – uma militância constante da artista. (Sílvia Souto Cunha) (Translation)
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