31/05/2026
Today is the last day at ARCOlisboa!
Conceived as an artist’s book in the form of an archive box, this work by Susanne Themlitz brings together 26 pieces, including photogravures, Giclée prints, drawings, and original paintings. The ensemble is presented in a conservation box with a transparent polycarbonate window, allowing a glimpse of its contents.
“Susanne S. D. Themlitz entices us – the viewers – to mingle or interact with her brainchildren-characters who people the exhibition spaces, suggesting we may all become part of the same community while in the same space. Thus, she calls for a reassessment of the established rules that predicate our relationship with the different non-human life forms that some bluntly ignore or merely consider as elements in a landscape, as adornment.” - Benjamin Weil.
Over the years, Susanne S. D. Themlitz’s work developed into a poetic universe of great symbolism, in constant dialogue with art history, literature, natural sciences, popular traditions, and children’s stories.
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“Fifteen glass tiles taken from the mosaic room at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the start of my academic training, and which for years lay forgotten and locked away inside a box, serve as the inspiration for the drawing I have named ‘minus fifteen’.
From the model, or origin, a process of presentation, representation and transformation begins which, drawing on simple and elementary relationships of enlargement, addition and subtraction, ends in what I call the shadow, folded and temporarily stored.”
Armanda Duarte’s work is site-specific to such a degree that her proposals are actually determined by her observation and analysis of each given space. She observes the characteristics and details of each context in search of the essence which will lead the process of creation up to the work’s final reception.
Join us at Booth F05
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Images:
Susanne S. D. Themlitz, ‘Entre Seres/ Among Beings’, 2026. The set comprises 26 works: 14 Giclée digital prints, 5 photogravures, 5 drawings, and 2 original paintings.
Armanda Duarte, ‘menos quinze’, 2019. 15 drawings constructed from each of 15 mosaics in a manual process of expanding.
