FRIDAY 8 APRIL: PHOTOGRAPHY & LITERATURE: “UM OLHAR SOBRE O FEMININO” OPEN CLASS BY LUIS SERPA, IPA LISBON

Luis Serpa is a prominent gallery owner and curator based in Lisbon, playing an important role in changing the perspective of visual arts throughout Portugal. On Friday 8^th April, Serpa will present an open class entitled “Fotografia & Literatura: Um Olhar Sobre o Feminino” analysing the work of female artists and representations of female protagonists in literature, as part of the project “Pós-Graduação: Fotografia, Projecto e Arte Contemporânea” organised by Atelier de Lisboa and IPA school.

From the narrative of Filipe Martins, author of renowned book “La donna è mobile”, Luis Serpa built a discourse based on the structure of this fictional book, discussing the main protagonist, a reputable contemporary photographer and her alter ego, Parcifal the “innocent fool”.

The talk will incorporate references to works such as the novels “Portrait of a Lady” by Henry James and “Madame Bovary” by Flaubert, while focusing on the work of artist, director and playwright Robert Wilson, opera composer Richard Wagner and running through his own career as a gallery and exhibition commissioner to analyse photography of female artists with whom he worked over the last thirty years; Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Michele Sylvander and Claudia Fischer, without forgetting the Portuguese; Graça Pereira Coutinho, Graça Sarsfield or Cristina Ataíde (among others), taking a look into the feminine vision, including that of a “man-who-likes-women” and also the relationship of “self against other”.

The class is open to the public with free entry and will take place at 21:00 at IPA (Instituto Superior Autonomo de Estudos Politecnicos):

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