CACE | Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection Acquisitions

Galeria Francisco Fino is pleased to share that Daniela Ângelo and Diogo Evangelista's works are now part of the Portuguese State Contemporary Art Collection (CACE).

 

Daniela Ângelo creates images that portray a vision of archives, of museum collections, as a construction made by the accumulation of times and geographies. A construction of the past and present that questions linear history and proposes alternative narratives marked by displacements, juxtapositions, and reappearances. The artist reinforces our position as spectators - we are double spectators: of her works and of the images she portrays - she always leaves us on the other side of the shop window, observing an object we don’t know, and which is foreign to us.

 

Diogo Evangelista's ZERO #4 explores the symbolic value of the egg as a heavily charged archetypal sign that brings-up notions of beginning and end; the alpha and omega of all things; the container of all life; and the circle, which is before speech and thought, the inaccessible unknown. Numbers represent the lawful order of the universe, and preceding them is zero, which is the un-manifest, the nothingness which comes before all things.

 

Diogo Evangelista's Ylem the Egg  portrays the hatching of one of the largest birds on the planet. Through a fictional narrative around the egg and the bird, the video alludes to the Jurassic period, the concepts of beginning and origin, the Big Bang and the relationship between interior and exterior at different scales. ‘Ylem’ was not only the name that was given in the lab to the egg represented in the video; it is also the term for the ‘primordial matter’ believed to constitute the Universe at the beginning of its formation. That which several ancient mythologies have named the ‘cosmic egg’.

8 Feb 2025