I THINK I MADE YOU UP (Group Show)
3rd Oct — 15th Oct 2022

‘I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. I think I made you up (inside my head)’ 

A cycle is the space of time during which a phenomenon or event occurs. When we talk about a cycle, we talk about the succession of time, the marking of a beginning, of a first cycle. At the beginning of Plato, we tried to expose the construction, the infrastructure of the design process, the creation of cycles, and their succession.

The exhibition took its title from Sylvia Plath’s poem Mad Girl’s Love Song. ‘I Think I Made You Up’ is about the composition of elements (real or imagined) and the organic construction made by senses. For several ancestral cultures, the number 13 represented feminity, because it corresponded to the number of lunar (menstrual) cycles in a year. Thirteen participants were called, from different generations, and with a multidisciplinary and differentiated body of work. Each of the artists in the exhibition, through their work, highlights their world, real or imagined, and with that exposes the structure of their creation process, with all the certainties and all the weaknesses. The different works explore themes of the body and personal intimacy, landscape and the collective scale, the fleeting and the continuous, transformed into an archive. They explore geographies of possible worlds and their constructions and, when placed together inside the gallery, they invite the viewer to find the signs of what unites them.

Artists: Catarina Neves Ricci, Catarina Real, Delia Hamer, Elisa Azevedo, Joana Passos de Almeida, Joana Rebelo de Andrade, Maria Luísa Capela, Maria Souto de Moura, Mariana Rebola, Mariana Sanchez Salvador, Matilde Nicolau de Almeida, Nininha Guimarães dos Santos e Paula Guimarães.