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A Cratera is a book with text by Jorge Gonçalves and illustrations by Francisco Queimadela that tells the story of an imaginary (or perhaps real) place whose origin is shrouded in mystery.
The A Cratera is an allegory that is both disturbing and deeply credible.
The author reveals a remarkable ability to express, with sensitive aesthetic precision, what emerges from the inner ‘crater’ present in each individual.
In this exhibition, primordial impulses are revealed, such as hope, flight, search and other relevant manifestations of the human condition.
We invite the reader to immerse in the weaving of the narrative, allowing themselves to be led along its symbolic paths, exploring the text in its non-linear and even unforeseen lines.
It seems to us that this narrative could allow us to cross the boundaries of the imaginary and motivate the ‘reconstitution’ of the individual present-world in relation to the collective.
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A brief description of the authors (a fuller description can be found):
Jorge Gonçalves (text)
He was a founding member of Cooperativa Integral Minga in 2015 and has been a board member since its foundation until 2021. A Cratera is his first short story published under his own name, without pseudonyms or anonymity.
Francisco Queimadela (illustrations)
He is an artist who usually works in partnership with Mariana Caló. Honoured with the BES Revelation Award in 2012 and winners of the Schermo dell’arte Film Festival International Award in 2013. Finalists in the EDP Foundation New Artists Award (2013). Winners of the first edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Award in 2018. In 2021 they took part in the 34th São Paulo Biennial.
