Vasco Barata (Lisbon, 1974) transforms the exhibition space into an installation where visitors are submerged in a semi-abandoned urban environment. This space is at once both physically “occupied” and showing the aftermath of a flood and its remains.
Dreamers Never Learn (Tidal) – curated by Carolina Grau – intends to reflect on the temporary free space which is liberated between the flux of the economical tides. During the financial crisis, society was plunged into survival mode at every level. Foreign investment seized the moment to speculate in the real estate, flooding the market. The constant cycle of tides uncovers a free space creating new borders that provide opportunities to the human waves of immigrants looking for a new beginning, as well as to the capitalist-driven investors looking for a chance to make new deals.
Vasco Barata was one of the finalists of the 2011 EDP Foundation New Artists Award.
