2022

ninguém. só eu

Centro de Arte Oliva, São João da Madeira

Ninguém. Só Eu. This exhibition is the result of the residency and support project for artistic creation coordinated by Antonia Gaeta around the exhibition Jaime: “Vi uma cadela minha com lobos”. The artists were invited to engage in a dialogue with the life and work of Jaime Fernandes, a cult outsider artist, but whose production has remained mainly known through the film Jaime (1974) by António Reis and not so much through direct contact with his drawings. Antonia Gaeta proposed a reflection on the author's imaginary and the particularities of his biography: Jaime Fernandes (1899-1969) was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hospitalized for more than three decades at the Miguel Bombarda Hospital (Lisbon); drawing and writing emerged late and unexpectedly in the last years of his life, in the context of hospital confinement. Thus, the works in Ninguém. Só Eu. weave threads related to ideas about ‘restricted experience’; ‘complementarity between experience and description’; ‘imagination and memory’, reconfiguring and materialising an inner world of subjective and poetic laws. The resident artists and authors of the works on show are: Ana Manso, Ana Santos, Belén Uriel, Francisca Carvalho, Jorge Queiróz, Mattia Denisse, Sérgio Carronha, Susanne Themlitz and Tropa Macaca.