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(No) Borders // Porto

±MaisMenos±
Rero

Portugal, 2022

Conceived by Underdogs and developed in partnership with the Institut Français, the public art project (No) Borders aims to promote a creative coming together between four Portuguese artists and four French artists, leading to the creation of public art interventions in four coastal sister cities.

– Nazaré (Portugal): Tamara Alves & YZ
– Capbreton (France): Wasted Rita & Elea Jeanne Schmitter
– Porto (Portugal): ±MaisMenos± & RERO
– Bordeaux (France): Add Fuel & L’Atlas

Developed in the scope of the 2022 France-Portugal Season and curated by Pauline Foessel and Alexandre Farto aka Vhils, (No) Borders stands as an open dialogue between both countries. An open door, built from exchanges, visual and poetic comings and goings between creators within a common movement – urban culture – exploring aesthetic and conceptual works that, despite being underlined by evident differences, are encapsulated by a profound complementarity.

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This installation by ±MaisMenos± and Rero questions our relationship with the positive and negative utopias of our time, attempting to trace the border that divides them and which urgently needs to be redefined.

To question the dichotomy of utopias, each artist proposed an aphorism, writing it on the same structure, with the aim of creating a resonance, while also offering a thesis and antithesis from which the public can draw their own conclusions. ±MaisMenos± painted the hopeful words of Martin Luther King Jr. “I HAVE A DREAM” in his usual “Universe” font as a message of love: a warm expression infinitely repeated like a mantra. In turn, Rero counters with the expression “NOT TODAY” written in LED lights, using a discreet graphic approach with his cold and contemporary aesthetic, which he crosses out, as is usual in his work, to question the words in this context, thus establishing a short-circuit to the utopic reading of the contribution by ±MaisMenos±.

This dialogue between the two artists allows for a permanent polysemic reading about questions regarding utopias, bringing them into the public space and into the city’s urban fabric, where they offer an alternative perspective of the world, question the public and invite them to reflect on the ambiguity of human existence and to take ana active role, engaging in artistic thought.

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Photography: Ana Pires

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