Launch of the Edition "Lightless" by Sara Bichão
With Sara Bichão and Inês Grosso
Free entry
The official launch of the new limited edition Lightless by Sara Bichão, published by the Serralves Foundation, will take place on Saturday, September 21, at 5:30 p.m., at the MAC/CCB Museum Auditorium in Lisbon. The session will be presented by the artist, Sara Bichão, and Inês Grosso, chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of the Serralves Foundation and author of the accompanying text, as they gather for a special conversation.
Lightless accompanies the exhibition of the same name, on display at the Serralves Museum until November. The show brings together a group of works produced during a series of residencies held over more than a year at the Serralves Foundation. With the support of the Museum and Park teams, Sara Bichão transformed a small room located at the Serralves Park's Quinta into a studio. In this space, the artist adapted to the institution's unique environment and the seasonal changes that deeply affect our daily lives and our relationship with the surrounding nature.
Each book in this numbered edition of 200 copies features a unique intervention on the cover, signed by the artist.
Free entry, subject to ticket availability on the day, at the MAC/CCB Museum ticket office, up to 30 minutes before the event. The ticket also grants access to the museum's other exhibition areas.
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Sara Bichão (Lisbon, 1986). She completed a BA (2011) and MA (2008) in Fine Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal. She has attended several artistic residencies, such as: Residency Unlimited (2022, New York, USA); Finisterrae (Ouessant, FR, 2022); Cité Internationale des Arts, (2019, Paris, FR); Centro ADM (2016, Mexico City, MX). She has received grants from the French Institute (2019, 2022), the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2014) and the Luso-American Foundation (2022). A selection of her solo shows include: "What is the thing, What is it ", Filomena Soares Gallery (2020); " Find me, I kill you ", Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (2018); "Coastal", Barbara Davis Gallery (2017). Group shows include: "Twin Islands", Vaga / CAC Passerelle / Carpintarias de S. Lázaro (2023-22); "Traverser La Nuit", MAAT (2022); "Clorophilia", Porta 33 (2021); "Storytelling", MAC Lyon (2019). Her work is part of public collections such as: Fondation Antoine de Galbert, France; CACE (State’s Collection of Contemporary Art); FLAD (Luso American Foundation); PLMJ Foundation; EDP Foundation - MAAT; Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation; Carmona e Costa Foundation; MidFirst Bank, Arizona, USA. Bichão was awarded with the FLAD Drawing Prize (finalist, 2021), Anteciparte'09 (finalist, 2009), Fidelidade Mundial – Young Painters (2009), BPI - FBAUL (2008). Inês Grosso is a Portuguese curator currently residing in Porto. She graduated in Art History from the University of Porto and obtained a Master's degree in Curatorial Studies from the University of Lisbon, supported by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. Between 2011 and 2015, she was part of the curatorial team at the Inhotim Institute, where she was involved in the conception, planning, and coordination of exhibitions from the collection, new pavilions, and outdoor works. From 2015 to 2021, she was a curator at MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, where she coordinated the institution’s international and public programs. In September 2021, she joined the curatorial team at the Serralves Museum as chief curator.