PARALLEL REVIEW 2021 stems from the idea of creating an anchor for analysing, discussing and producing photography, not only to acknowledge the importance of image as a contemporary document, but also as a form of promoting dialogue, between all its actors: the artists, the public and the city.

Since 2017 Parallel Platform have been showcasing in several exhibitions, more than 100 contemporary photographers from all over Europe. More than 4 years later, the project continues to break new ground in contemporary photography.

Extended Atlas
Curated by Sandra Vieira Jürgens

This year’s exhibition is located outside the Local Market situated in the neighborhood of Alvalade in Lisbon. Produced in a large mural, the exhibition reunites a selection of artworks from several photographers, who participated in PARALLEL’s national and international exhibitions and initiatives, since 2017.

The idea for the exhibition, according to the curator Sandra Jürgens, results from the rescue of several narrative proposals from the PARALLEL photographic archives. Almost as an archaeological work, the exhibition wants to show the nature and permanent challenges of photography, highlighting the potential of images and their ability to create dialogues, between past and present, reality and imagination, objects and geographies.

Some of the participating artists in this exhibition are George Selley, Negar Yaghmaian, Emanuel Cederqvist, Anka Gregorczyk, Cian Burke, José Alves, Sinead Kennedy, among other great ones distinguished by a richness and diversity artwork body of languages ​​and aesthetics.

With:

Ana Zibelnik

Andrej Lamut

Anka Gregorczyk

Antonina Gugała

Caroline Kolman

Charlotte Mano

Cian Burke

Dániel Szalai

Diego Ballestrasse

Emanuel Cederqvist and Axel Hamberg

Federico Ciamei

George Selley

Georgs Avetisjans

Glorija Lizde

Hannamari Shakya

Inês Marinho and Negar Yaghmaian

Jessica Wolfelsperger

Joachim Bøgedal

Johanna Karjalainen

José Alves

Joséphine Desmenez

Louisa Boeszoermeny

Mark McGuinness

Mateusz Kowalik

Nuno Barroso

Rocco Venezia

Sinead Kennedy

Changing Times Talks
Curated by Mafalda Duarte Barrela

September 11th
Pátio das Tílias, Museu de Lisboa | Palácio Pimenta
2pm-6pm

In the Changing Times Talks, it is intended to question the origin of the metamorphosis of a permanently mutable and changing world. What will happen to places that are now like they never were? What experience is this passage of time and the abrupt anguish that comes with the awareness of its fictitious measurability? Who are the people, existing in their inconstancy and volatility or in their new thesis and certainties.

The talks are part of the 4th cycle of PARALLEL – European Photo Based Platform and aim to promote the debate on the potential of contemporary photography, in its various aspects, as a catalyst for the exploration of the aforementioned themes.

14h00 – 15h00

Who?: On subjectivity, limits, and portraiture

Ilios Willemars, Ph.D. – Leiden University
Louisa Boeszoermeny – Artista PARALLEL
Jessica Wolfelsperger – Artista PARALLEL

15h30 – 16h30

Local-ities: the plasticity of memory-based and archival artistic practices
Colectivo 249, Torres Novas
Inês Marinho – Artista PARALLEL
Fábio Cunha – Artista PARALLEL

17h00 – 18h00

(In)habiting: on the spatiality of being
Diana Gonçalves, Ph.D. – FCH-Católica
Jordi Barreras – Artista PARALLEL
Dániel Szalai – Artista PARALLEL

Mandatory registration

Workshops – Alternative processes in Photography
With Tira-Olhos

September 11th
Museu de Lisboa | Palácio Pimenta

Recycled Paper Manufacturing
Session 1, from 10 am to 1 pm
Session 2, from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm

Cyanotype Panel
Session 1, from 10 am to 11:30 am
Session 2, from 2:30 pm to 4:00 pm

Luminogram
Session 1, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Session 2, from 4:30 to 6 pm

Antitype:
Session 1, from 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Session 2, from 4:30 pm to 6 pm

Sessions in Portuguese
Maximum 6 people per session
Open to all
Mandatory enrollment