P.S. Correspondence

That is for what people are… to be with … to share moments, to talk and discuss about the distance required to do a critical analysis of an exhibition (it is like when some political or economic decision is taken, just on the long-term we will know if that decision was right, the idea is be wrong the least time possible - just see what has happen to Portuguese economic policies in the last fifteen, thirty years, or even to the EURO crisis); to comment on their and others artworks and exhibitions, what is to be and what is to became (sometimes I wander back in time and go in to a Prémio EDP Novos Artists, which was won by Gabriel Abrantes with a major video-installation, but it is not on Gabriel's sexual stories on life, war and relationships that I'm interested with, but instead it was more on the mentally handicapped who selected some young clown, which was making cheap paper copies and films - where was the work?! - of what was/is being done by two of the top international artist - not that I'm against artists working with/on other artists work, but if at least they bring something new in to the discourse, through their singularity, please fell free, and do it! Definitely, this was one of those times! They could at least had changed the denomination, from Young Artists to Portuguese-working-around-the-world, and in the latest case, from Gallery to Art Space); it is to go through everyday-life stuff, like going to local shops to buy groceries or about trips done to exotic places like Vietnam and the adventures they had gone through; it is to sit down in a local pub, drink a pint of beer or a glass of wine, spend a nice and enjoyable time. That is for what people are… to be with …