Writer, filmmaker and artist, Patrícia Portela, who served as the artistic director of Teatro Viriato, in Viseu, is She is also the author of several transdisciplinary artistic projects and founder and member of the Prado Cultural Association. É author of several novels and soap operas such as Banquete (2012, finalist for the Grand Prix of Romance and APE soap opera) or Dias Úteis (2017, considered by Sábado and Visão magazines as one of the best books of the year) .

As CPS Guest Curator, present us with your choices:

"I often wonder why we put something on the wall. In our homes, in our offices, in our private or social spaces.
I know that many of us ;s are collectors and we look at works of art that we translate into dollar signs, or into prestige or into admiration. Many of us are art lovers per se, delighting in that color , the symmetry, the shape, the density. But still, why do we choose to love a Cruzeiro Seixas and not a José de Guimarães?
Because we love a Rothko but we would never put him on the wall, or the opposite, because we put a Braque but would never love him to death? Because we put a screen print of a Guernica on the wall as if it were a last supper (who had parents like that?) I would put a Milky Way of Tintoretto, if there was an original size silkscreen that would fit in my room. If there wasn't, I would choose one of these five authors who delight me and, above all, move me, for different reasons.

The magnificent photographs by Duarte Belo of the Coa Valley remind me of one of the most magical spaces I have ever set foot in. They remind me that we are complex because we have never been simple. They remind me that we don't really know why we draw, and why we show it to others.

Duarte Belo, Untitled (Foz Côa), Photography

Alice Geirinhas is; my favorite punk artist. A woman before all others are women in art, radical in the attitude and freedom with which she advances in her art, traditional in her choice of techniques, provocative in her choice of themes, a master in the field of drawing and linography which filled my entire imagination, multidisciplinary like all the great ones. These reliquary busts remind me that being a woman is important. be a contradiction.

Alice Geirinhas, "Relic Busts" Series, Linocut

I have a soft spot for João Maio Pinto's underground Lisbon, which I have on my wall. I had the pleasure of inviting this author, one of my favorites, to draw it for the Guide to read and see Lisbon, where I invited another 20 illustrators to imagine their itineraries through the city of white light. João Maio Pinto chose Ana Hatherley on her way to Botequim da Natália, and Alexandre O’Neil in his Príreal for this screen print, and explained to me in detail each line of this image on the opening day. that of the exhibition and launch of the book. I keep the best memories of that day. The screen printing that only If found in the book, there are Natália Correia and Césariny, and I would have a lot to say about them, and perhaps that's why the next choice is a screen print by this last master.

João Maio Pinto, "Lisboa Subterrânea" - Ler e Ver Lisboa Collection, Screen Printing

It was the name that caught my attention in this screen print. That of the author and that of the silkscreen. Amoris Actus on the board could be AMOR- RIS ACTUS, or if we read it quickly: amoexactus. It made me smile. Like that work of art by YOKO ONO that made John Lennon fall madly in love with it: a staircase going up to the top of the stairs. to the ceiling, and if we were to climb it, in the gallery, there at the top we could read: YES.

Mário Cesariny, Surrealist Castle, Screen Printing

Of all the choices Joseph Beuys is; the most current. Because we should all be Beuys today. Because there is no most pressing and urgent topic. Because it is an author who had such an impact on our daily lives, and who still lives (or haunts our days) that he almost made us forget his art. And the greatest art is the one that gets confused. Which confuses us. Which reminds us that it is In the confusion we make choices, we make decisions. And we move forward."

Joseph Beuys, Silkscreen poster for the exhibition "Difesa della Natura", Estampa - Madrid, Spain.

THE SET OF WORKS CURATED BY PATRÍcia PORTELA: