A Salt Anthology

26 april-25 may 2023

𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐑𝐘: : : : : : : : : : : : : : :
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𝙸𝙽𝙰𝚄𝙶𝚄𝚁𝙰𝚃𝙸𝙾𝙽: 26 apr | wed | 18h
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𝙳𝙰𝙸𝙻𝚈 𝙾𝙿𝙴𝙽𝙸𝙽𝙶 𝙷𝙾𝚄𝚁𝚂: tue-sat | 15h-19h
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𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙴𝚁𝙵𝙻𝚄𝙴̂𝙽𝙲𝙸𝙰𝚂: T.B.A.
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𝙵𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚂𝚂𝙰𝙶𝙴: 25 mai | thu | 17h

Booking: Free entrance

A Salt Anthology was the winning project of the Open Call for Young Curators, launched in collaboration with Rua das Gaivotas 6 and Associação Quinta das Relvas, with the aim of expanding and supporting national contemporary artistic creation, pointing to the importance of the role of young curators as fundamental mediators to map new artistic panoramas and disseminate the work of new generations of artists.

This grant seeks to provide a welcoming space for emerging curators to develop their practice, experiment with ideas, expand networks, create relationships with artists, and expand their presence in the contemporary art community.

The project A SALT ANTHOLOGY is an immersive anthology of sea salt and its relationship to the land. Fragmented ideas, stories and identities can here find a new way of coming together, opening us to new possibilities to reconnect to long-forgotten knowledge. Reinterpreting salt not as a commodity but as a complex crossway of histories, tastes, and identities is a necessary political stand to embrace more equitable ways of living and to practice care for the small and overlooked. If salt can be counted in grains, growing it as a seed can sprout renewed relationships between us, the environment and our shared history.

Kevin Bellò

Kevin Bellò (b.1995 in Como, Italy) is an Italian curator and researcher based between London and Milan. Their curatorial approach moves from food localities to investigating ecological and political super-structures, promoting cognitive justice and developing practices of care. After completing an MA in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal College of Art in 2021 with a dissertation on transdisciplinary discursivity, they co-founded the pan-European art collective Sympoietic Society (2022 – ongoing) to explore ecological activism, participatory practices, and environmental loss. They also work with The Gramounce, an art collective and educational platform researching politics through the intersection between art and food. In their research, local culinary practices and rural ecosystems are not only blueprints for cultural, environmental and social movements but can also inspire positive change and polyculture. Their most recent projects engage rural and urban communities of humans and more-than-humans connected to local bodies of water, developing site-specific studies and artistic experimentations that reconnect with the ecosystems in a time of ecological disruptions.

Inês Coelho da Silva

Inês Coelho da Silva (b.1996 in Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal) is an artist and researcher based between London and Porto. She graduated with an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in 2021 and was featured in a number of exhibitions internationally. Inês studies slow practices, food politics and acts of care through her sculptural work, raising cultural and socio-political questions around food sustainability, intimacy and emotional encounters. Her most recent works identify the kitchen table as a multi-layered topos for reflecting upon shared traditions, identities and emotions. In her practice, spices, minerals, grains and other ingredients take the central stage in configurations that embrace states of impermanence and fragility. Inês is currently collaborating with The Gramounce for the upcoming Food and Art Alternative M.A.

Joana Viveiros

Joana Viveiros (b. 1996 in Madeira, Portugal) is an interdisciplinary artist working between Madeira and London. Her project-based practice questions her own place in the world as an islander and as a woman. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Art and Science at Central Saint Martins in 2021 and has been working on projects that connect art and ecology, leading her to win the Maison/0 This Earth Award for her innovative sustainable practice (LVMH, 2022). Her childhood years in Madeira informed her research with embodied knowledge of the island’s crafts, traditions, geography, and biosphere. Through sculpture, video and analogue photography, Joana engages with the creative possibilities of everyday objects and materials. In recent years, she has researched the influence and symbolism of sea salt between broader historical and ecological contexts and the intimate scale of her human body.