BERNARDO SIMÕES CORREIASaga

Continuing a plastic investigation into images, their mechanisms of creation and fixation, their spectral dimension and their immense referential field, Bernardo Simões Correia proposes the presentation of an exhibition that involves the articulation of a set of pre-existing works with others specially conceived for the context of this presentation.

Being his first solo show in Porto, under the title “Saga”, this exhibition stems from the re-appropriation of images previously produced by the artist (in the form of drawings), (re)contextualizing them in new combinations and allowing them to be embodied in space through different materials.

Where do these images come from? What is their destination? And in what way do they seem to evoke so many other possible images, traversing time and consecrating themselves, in the manner of an epic narrative, in the magnitude of their imagined condition?  

Ana Anacleto

Bernardo Simões Correia was born in 1980 in Lisbon, where he lives and works. In 2004 he finished his Graphic Design course at IADE and in 2012 he completed his individual project in visual arts at Ar.Co. He has been a drawing teacher since 2010. Between 1999 and 2003 he traveled to the northern interior of Mozambique where he worked as a volunteer during the summer months. His exhibitions include “Tigre” (2015), Espaço AZ, “Cavaleiro Branco” (2015), Museu Geológico, “...Acontece que há fantasmas, por isso não temas...”, EDP Foundation New Artists Award (2017) (finalist), “Predador perdido” (2018), Galeria A Montanha, “A camisa da cobra” (2020), Atelier Bempostinha, “Spirare” (2021), Lado-B - Galeria Balcony, “Onças espreitam do breu matagal” (2021), CAV. Since 2017, he has collaborated with Alexandre Camarao in the ABCC collective, which won the Mauro Mattei Art Trust first prize (Milan) with the group exhibition “The Pathfinders” (2019), Atelier Bempostinha. In 2020, the ABCC presented the exhibition “Corium” at Brotéria.