Supermala at FARRA, Elvas
Supermala, Polido
15.06.2024 - 15.08.2024
For FARRA, (Festa da Arte em Rede na Região do Alentejo) Supermala presented a series of works that were recently acquired by Coleção António Cachola.
Unclosing the hand. You give for ever., 2020
Handbag, brass, acrylic paint
Finest, 2020
Handbag, spray paint, acrylic glass
Supermala
La Más Mala, 2020
Handbag, acrylic paint, silicone, air-dry modeling paste, wig
LxXx, 2020
Handbag, plastic algae, cotton
Listening session programmed by Supermala
Polido is a musician and multidisciplinary artist from Marinha Grande. Anchored in a materialist approach to sound, his vocabulary is composed of personal recordings and samples. From the processing of this raw material, Polido constructs surreal narratives for specific spaces.
His work moves along the axis of the history of Portuguese music, cultural memory, and sociopolitical phenomena, in search of a threshold between the recognition and the alienation of these forms.
Through concerts, sound collages, listening sessions, and installation, his work has been presented in contexts such as Batalha Centro de Cinema, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Ormside Projects, 12th Berlin Biennale at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Sismógrafo, NTS Radio, Sonsbeek and Spirit Shop.
Polido runs the embryonic label Projecto de Vida, through which he organizes music gatherings, and his music has been released by the labels Holuzam, Bus Editions, and Lynn.
Listening session:
What is political music? What value does the traditional hold? The traditional materializes through versions of an oral memory—now practically extinct, or on the verge of it—a creative repertoire of varying densities. In this listening session we bring together Portuguese music from 1969 to 2011 that carries both political intention and this traditional corpus.
Supermala, Polido
15.06.2024 - 15.08.2024
For FARRA, (Festa da Arte em Rede na Região do Alentejo) Supermala presented a series of works that were recently acquired by Coleção António Cachola.
Unclosing the hand. You give for ever., 2020
Handbag, brass, acrylic paint
Finest, 2020
Handbag, spray paint, acrylic glass
Supermala
La Más Mala, 2020
Handbag, acrylic paint, silicone, air-dry modeling paste, wig
LxXx, 2020
Handbag, plastic algae, cotton
Listening session programmed by Supermala
Polido is a musician and multidisciplinary artist from Marinha Grande. Anchored in a materialist approach to sound, his vocabulary is composed of personal recordings and samples. From the processing of this raw material, Polido constructs surreal narratives for specific spaces.
His work moves along the axis of the history of Portuguese music, cultural memory, and sociopolitical phenomena, in search of a threshold between the recognition and the alienation of these forms.
Through concerts, sound collages, listening sessions, and installation, his work has been presented in contexts such as Batalha Centro de Cinema, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Ormside Projects, 12th Berlin Biennale at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea do Chiado, Sismógrafo, NTS Radio, Sonsbeek and Spirit Shop.
Polido runs the embryonic label Projecto de Vida, through which he organizes music gatherings, and his music has been released by the labels Holuzam, Bus Editions, and Lynn.
Listening session:
What is political music? What value does the traditional hold? The traditional materializes through versions of an oral memory—now practically extinct, or on the verge of it—a creative repertoire of varying densities. In this listening session we bring together Portuguese music from 1969 to 2011 that carries both political intention and this traditional corpus.
Photo: Pedro Magalhães, Courtesy of Mala, Coleção António Cachola and the artists.