Porto Municipal Gallery features “Nets of Hyphae”, on 4th December

Porto Municipal Gallery inaugurates the exhibit themed “Nets of Hyphae”, by Diana Policarpo and curated by Stefanie Hessler, director of the Kunsthall Trondheim, on 4th December.

The opening was due to happen on 5th December; however, owing to the current preventive measures to fight the pandemic, there will be an early opening, to comply with the mandatory curfew on the next weekend afternoons, starting at 1pm.

The exhibition is on show at the Municipal Gallery’s mezzanine, with Diana Policarpo resuming her research on fungi networks, and drawing parallels with ergotism, secular knowledge suppression and justice in health. Diana Policarpo will address the role of fungi in health, namely when used to induce abortion; also, up to present, historians speculate if ergotism has had a crucial role in the witchcraft accusations during the Salém crisis, in 1692, as well as in the Sámi Shamans and the Finnmark trials, in 1621, as well as in other occasions.

This is the starting point of the artist to “Nets of Hyphae”, which features video, animation, textile and sound ambiance. The show is on display until 14th February.

The exhibition “Que horas são que horas”, which would inaugurate at the same time, has been postponed, and the new opening date is 17th December. This has to do with preventive measures regarding staff safety, namely during the assemblage of the exhibition.

The “Que horas são que horas” exhibit is curated by José Maia, Paula Parente Pinto and Paulo Mendes and features a historic landscape of art galleries in Porto.

Entrance to the exhibitions at Porto Municipal Gallery is free, but subject to the maximum capacity of 30 people, in addition to the health preventive measures in place.

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