Boletim-Architecture 2013 Publisher: Editorial Concreta, Valencia, Espanha/Spain Boletim looks like the magazine of the Portuguese Railway. It simulates the magazine of the Company house staff from the 1960s, however it contains articles on recent matters. Boletim’s first number is dedicated to type of architecture commissioned by the Railway Company: Railway stations, houses for the workers, workshops and social projects. The examples are set mainly in Entroncamento, a small town born around the railway station, which is still operating. @Carla Filipe Fotografias e textos / Photographs and texts de / by Carla Filipe, images and facsimiles appropriated from Bulletins of the Railway portuguese company of the 60s, Edition: 200 copies; 45 pages; 1º Ed Printed digital, B/W ; 2º Ed Printed Offset (2015), suporte no design do plano maquete/support in mockup plan design Duarte Amorim (Bolos quentes)
Rorschach + Se não há cultura, não há nada / If There Is no Culture There Is Nothing 2013 Curadoria/Curated by Fulya Erdemci, Mom, Am I Barbarian?, 13th Istanbul Biennial, Turquia/Turkey Instalação Rorschach (Rorschach Installation) consists of 10 books infested with bookworms, shown open on the wall. The marks of the worms’ feast are lines and holes on the open pages of the books, making them resemble Rorschach tests. If the existence of bookworms reflects the lack of care these volumes have endured, then the patterns the creatures have formed—by resembling a tool for the psychological assessment of personality disorders—become a metaphor for the fate of culture in Portuguese society. The (beautiful) disintegration of the books suggests that culture itself, also uncared for, is disintegrating. In the video Se não há cultura, não há nada (If There Is no Culture There Is Nothing), we follow an antiquarian bookseller through his store and overstuffed basement. We hear him ramble on about books, rare findings, entire collections that were held by prominent families for generations and are now coming onto the market to be sold. Filipa Oliveira in ArtForum, 2011