In “Observatório de tangentes”, Valter Ventura departs from the historical figure Étienne-Jules Marey (1830-1904) and his 1882 invention, the Fusil photographique. By recovering an object from the past that itself represents a cultural intersection, Ventura proposes to examine the “photographic” within its multiple overlapping circumstances (technological, philosophical, aesthetic and communicational), pursuing in the origins of photography and its various devices the hidden genesis of the identity crisis that photography undergoes today.
SONAE Room
entry: General ConditionsObservatório de tangentes
Valter Ventura
2017-02-17
2017-05-07
On Exhibition
LISBOA DÜSSELDORF FACES
2025-07-12
2025-10-05
In black and white, and through the symbolic power of portraiture, two photographers from different backgrounds have aesthetically and freely captured the substance of their own cities, Düsseldorf and Lisbon.
Caminhos
Millennium bcp Collection
2025-05-16
2025-08-24
Curatorship: Emília Ferreira, Regina Branco e Joana d’Oliva Monteiro
he vital need for contact with nature, also advocating movement as the essence of life, inspired by the thought of the writer and naturalist Henry David Thoreau
Impressões Digitais. MNAC Collection
2024-12-12
2026-12-30
Curatorship: Ana Guimarães, Emília Ferreira, Maria de Aires Silveira e Tiago Beirão Veiga
Consisting of founding works of contemporary Portuguese art historiography, from 1850 to the present day, the MNAC's collection holds several national treasures.
Since 1911
2022-05-26
2026-05-26
An intervention that celebrates 110 years of the MNAC.
