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MIT List Visual Arts Center announces List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes

MIT List Visual Arts Center presents List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes an exhibition on view May May 9–June 30, 2013.

Lisbon-based filmmaker and artist Gabriel Abrantes (b. 1984, United States) crafts fictions around new identities and relations of desire forged through globalization. Abrantes’ brand of post-colonial cinema also implicates desire—and repression as its dialectic—in the reconstruction and reimagining of the past.

Liberdade (directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Benjamin Crotty, 2011) is focused on the new relationships of love and desire created by global capital in Africa. Fratelli (directed by Gabriel Abrantes and Alexandre Melo, 2011) adapts William Shakespeare’s prologue to The Taming of the Shrew, its Portuguese dialogue spoken with the Brazilian accent from Bahia, and filmed in Lazio, the region of Italy where Latin originated. Ornithes (2012), an adaptation of Aristophanes’ play The Birds, was shot in Jacmel, Haiti—the site of major damage during the 2010 earthquake—and features costumes made by local artisans with dialogue in Creole and Attic Greek.

Nairy Baghramian, Alan Uglow: Standards and Portraits and List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes are curated by List curator João Ribas.

Support for all three exhibitions has been provided by the Council for the Arts at MIT, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Office of the Associate Provost at MIT, the MIT List Visual Arts Center Advisory Committee, and the Friends of the List.

Nairy Baghramian is made possible through the generous support of Julian and Barbara Cherubini. Additional support has been provided by the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Boston. Thanks go to the British Consulate-General Boston for its support of Alan Uglow: Standards and Portraits. Funding for List Projects: Gabriel Abrantes was provided by Foreign Languages and Literature at MIT.

MIT List Visual Arts Center
20 Ames St.
Cambridge, MA 02139
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