Exhibitions, Portugal, Ponte do Lima, 01 July 2018
Lethes Art is a wide contemporary art exhibition that happens in different historical buildings in the oldest town of Portugal, Ponte de Lima.
The theme of the exhibition, given by the curator Isabel Patim, is ‘Cartography of Cultures’. The focus is on space and its visual discourses and representations. Selected artists represent several artistic areas from painting and sculpture to video and land art or to installation and sound art.
The Finnish contemporary artist Ulla Karttunen presents a site-spesific work, a 5 metre high altarpiece in a church in the center of the old town. The opening of the exhibition also starts from here, Chapel of Pereiras.
The feminine saint in Ulla Karttunen’s altarpiece installation 'Madonna of the Third and the Fourth Eye' is a creature outside any single religion, celebrating a new, more transparent and less violent start for humankind. The third eye has, in traditions like Hinduism or Taoism, meant higher consciousness or seeing beyond ordinary sight. It has also been seen as a symbol of non-dualistic thinking. The hands of the madonna are marked, as in Christianity, by stigmata, the crucifixion wounds. If we count together all the global history of violence against women, sexual harassment or lack of sexual self-determination, there are too many reasons to struggle from victimhood to boldness and blooming.
The theme of the exhibition, given by the curator Isabel Patim, is ‘Cartography of Cultures’. The focus is on space and its visual discourses and representations. Selected artists represent several artistic areas from painting and sculpture to video and land art or to installation and sound art.
The Finnish contemporary artist Ulla Karttunen presents a site-spesific work, a 5 metre high altarpiece in a church in the center of the old town. The opening of the exhibition also starts from here, Chapel of Pereiras.
The feminine saint in Ulla Karttunen’s altarpiece installation 'Madonna of the Third and the Fourth Eye' is a creature outside any single religion, celebrating a new, more transparent and less violent start for humankind. The third eye has, in traditions like Hinduism or Taoism, meant higher consciousness or seeing beyond ordinary sight. It has also been seen as a symbol of non-dualistic thinking. The hands of the madonna are marked, as in Christianity, by stigmata, the crucifixion wounds. If we count together all the global history of violence against women, sexual harassment or lack of sexual self-determination, there are too many reasons to struggle from victimhood to boldness and blooming.
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