“Grasping Time” curated by Alexia Alexandropoulou

25.11.22 @ 17:00

Fabrica Braço de Prata, Lisbon

Drawing, as a primary visual language, remains a powerful means to translate, document, and analyze our society. The need to understand the world through visual lenses seems more urgent than ever: images transcend the barriers of language and enhance communications in an increasingly fluid society, in a world that changes rapidly and where nothing remains the same.

Considering this rapid change to be inevitable, we came up with the theme Here And Now, which conceals multiple meanings. First, it creates urgency. It causes the act of pausing, to understand the moment before it fleets. Secondly, it represents the literal action of the Lisbon Drawing Club: a community indulging in the present, drawing together. This togetherness allows experiencing a unique moment of creation, reflection, and representation.

Through quiet contemplation, the viewers will be able to see the body’s different sensations and forms, as well as the images evocatively suggested by these works. While they may look small in scale, they open up a wide space to rethink the actual notion of the body and the human condition.
By collecting drawings from the Here and Now, this exhibition also grasps the mutation of time. Moments are ever-evolving, time continuously transforms the (now-past) present into a new (more-current) present. Each of the selected drawings testifies to the liveliness of both the drawer and those being drawn; for life means movement, action, and transformation. Therefore, this exhibition acts as an archive of moments in time, an archive of people and connections. Here and Now might seem difficult or uncertain, but it can also be a great time to live — unquestionably, a time worth grasping.

Text: Alexia Alexandropoulou, Ines Neves

The exhibition Grasping Time will be on between the 25th and 27th of November at Fabrica Braço de Prata, open from 17h-21h. The exhibition’s vernissage will take place on November 25th, between 19h00-22h00. On November 27th from 11h-16h there will be the 5h drawing session Big Draw, held between Lisbon Drawing Club and Drink&Draw Tallinn, followed by a finissage from 16h-22h.

Participating artists:
Adrien Genevard , Alina Shpakova , Ana Beatriz Ávila, Barbara Ryckewaert, Chris Markland, Flora Gasnier, Inês Garcia, João Guapo,
João Miguel Feijão, Lígia Fernandes, Madalena Bettencourt, Margherita Batoréu Annibale, Marianne Maina, Nicola Lonzi, Nicole Sánchez,
Pedro Cabral, Rita Almeida, Rita Ivo, Susanne Malorny, Tati (entalle), Tomás Reis, Utku Yavasca ,Valerio Giovannini, Vasilisa Omelchenko, Vera Joao

Curated by: mais uno +1 — Alexia Alexandropoulou (GR), Alina Shpakova (RU), Dorottya Ács (HU), Inês Nêves (PT)

Poster design: Ines Neves

*Alexia Alexandropoulou is a curatorial SNF ARTWORKS Fellow (2022)