Overview

During Coimbra's Cultural Fair the coordinator of the project INTIMATE - Citizenship, Care and Choice: The Micropolitics of Intimacy in Southern Europe will address the exhibition «Contra-natura – the Good, the Bad and the Monster»

The exhibition brings together works from a group of illustrators from Southern Europe. In these works there are monsters that disturb us, distress truths taken for granted, pose challenges to the normativity with which one looks at everyday life. Through the use of dream and the imaginary, the techniques and colours used invite us to look unhurriedly at the creatures who respond with their own look, suggesting that perhaps the most frightening monstrosity is the imposition of a normality.

Artists:

Rita Roque, 1984. Porto (PT)
Elia Nadie, 1986. Trento (IT) 
Mister Fields, 1971. Lisboa (PT)
Martina Manya, 1983. Lisboa/Barcelona (PT/CAT)
Sergio Condeço, 1968. Lisboa (PT)