"Without actually providing us with a solution or a stabilised form, the answer to Are We All Museums of Fear? – the first part of an exhibition trilogy, which will be followed, at other venues, by All Animals Are Bad, All of Them are a Meal Away from Barbarity and And When I Die I Won’t Stay Dead – is an open scenario, palimpsestic, fragmentary and visceral, which Filipe Marques seeks to confront us with. The phrase was stolen from Charles Bukowski, who uttered it in his disparaged but incisive Poem for Nobody; Filipe Marques inverts the statement into the form of a question, yet not without first removing from it the hallmark (as it is in the poet), symptom and origin of a profound intuition: sharp, sincere and clear-sighted. Because even if the question is raised as a way of thrusting us directly into the inner movement of this exhibition – and thus making us also its agents – no acquiescence is expected on our part."

DAVID REVÉS

Excerpt of the exhibition text