A Hora Antes do Pôr do Sol

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“The hour before sunset has a magic all its own...” Rosa Luxemburg wrote to her friend Hans Diefenbach in a letter sent from Wronke prison, in the summer of 1917. Based on this correspondence, Colombian artist Milena Bonilla invites us to think about the possibilities of building an imaginary universe that navigates between literature, botany, sporadic historical references and collective mythologies. Here, “that hour before sunset” appears as a conception of a magical temporal moment that links past and present through the creation of emotional resonances.

For the construction of this exhibition, the artist explores the limits of the archive as a way of connecting collective memory. The project infiltrates itself in the symbolic interstitial spaces between the garden of Palácio de Cristal, the Municipal Library Almeida Garrett and Galeria Municipal do Porto in order to relate different forms of knowledge output to investigate the concept of something that we could call 'suspended historical temporality'.