" (…) Desenhar uma simples flor, compor uma melodia banal, imaginar um conto que seja, enquanto uma turma de crianças é morta diariamente na Ásia Ocidental – por armas pagas pelos nossos impostos, inventadas pelos nossos cientistas e engenheiros, em nome dos nossos valores e da nossa moral – implica ignorar tanta humanidade que nos arriscamos a perder a nossa própria por entre as explosões, os cadáveres e as ruínas. (…) "

Ratton Gallery’s 39th Anniversary

Tiago Cutileiro’s exhibition, opening on 22 October at 9.30 pm, offers us an opportunity to reflect on these dark times we are living through, in which the humanist values we uphold are dangerously under threat.

Special thanks to Alexandra Lucas Coelho for her insights into the works in the text included in the exhibition booklet.

" (…) To draw a simple flower, compose a trivial tune, or imagine a story of any kind, whilst a classroom of children is being killed every day in West Asia – by weapons paid for with our tax money, invented by our scientists and engineers, in the name of our values and our morality – implies ignoring so much humanity that we risk losing our own amidst the explosions, the corpses and the ruins. (…) "