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Solo show by rising Portuguese artist Cristina Massena opens a new exhibition cycle at Alcantarilha's exhibition centre, through 3 October.
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Acreditar no Gesto is the first solo exhibition dedicated to a single artist from the Coleção Luís Negrão e Família, a private collection of contemporary Portuguese art, and it opens a new exhibition cycle at the Centro de Exposições de Alcantarilha. The artist, Cristina Massena, works with the gesture of the body and its relationship to space, exploring the marks and traces left between the interior and the exterior, the concrete and the fleeting.
Massena's work already sits in collections including FLAD, the Museu Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso and the DST Group, and this show, curated by Hugo Santos Silva, is organised by Silves town council in partnership with the collection.
The exhibition runs Tuesday to Saturday, 13:00 to 19:00, until 3 October. Entry is free.
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