WINNERS OPEN CALL 2024

Acquisition Award EDP/MAAT Foundation
AnaMary Bilbao, Prelúdio, 2024

Honorable Mention (EDP Foundation/MAAT)
João Francisco Correia, Run, Snail, Run, 2023

Duplacena Incentive Award (public choice)
Joana Lourenço, Anthropological Bunker, 2024

The award-winning video furthers Anamary Bilbao’s work from its more well-known visual arts dimension to one that reveals a para-narrativity already inferred from her previous work. Caricature-like and diabolic characters — a kind of red goblins — are the protagonists in small scenes that, like the interludes of medieval theatre, articulate more abstract moments (true exercises in colour and light) with fragmentary registrations of a still life that is never perceived in its entirety. Degraded by filters and scratches of colour, the image as a whole becomes a territory of restlessness where the survival of the very idea of representation is challenged. The interplay between the images and the soundtrack, particularly through the use of voice and text, adds precision and dynamism to the work. This also imparts a sense of solemnity at its conclusion, making the work a testament to the loss of that reality, as well as a confession of that loss.

Although the Honorable Mention is not an official category in the statutes of FUSO and does not confer any type of diploma, we want to highlight another work in competition: Run, Snail, Run by João Francisco Correia. This piece stands out for the creativity shown in its narrative construction and the visual solutions employed.

João Pinharanda

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This year’s OPEN CALL at the FUSO festival received 245 applications from artists who live and work in Portugal and/or are Portuguese nationals. Jean-François Chougnet - artistic director of FUSO and João Pinharanda - director of MAAT, selected twelve works that offer the public a fragmentary inventory of video art in Portugal.

Selected artists and works

AnaMary Bilbao, Prelude, 2024 (Acquisition Award EDP/MAAT Foundation)

Filipa Nobre e Maria Trindade, Ao som do estranho, 2024

Francisco Lourenço, Fiesta remembers that her things are up there, 2023

Gabriel Andrade, Berro, 2024

Joana Lourenço, Anthropological Bunker, 2024 (Duplacena Incentive Award)

João Francisco Correia, Run Snail Run, 2023 (Honorable Mention EDP Foundation/MAAT)

Luís Miranda, Mountain (#4), 2022

Luís Palma, O Milhafre, 2023

Mário Espada, Dormidera y Otros Sueños Democráticos, 2024

Pauliana Valente Pimentel, New age kids, 2024

Renata Bueno, Em Círculos, 2024

Rita Ruivo, Transumância, 202