Galeria Nuno Centeno announces the support of the Family Film Festival – International Festival of Memory, Archive, and Ethnography.
The 14th edition of this festival, produced by Balleteatro, aims to promote a dialogue between alternative cinematic productions and other creative initiatives. The festival’s programming will be displayed at different venues across Porto, including Cinema Batalha, Coliseu Porto Ageas, Reitoria da Universidade do Porto – Casa Comum, Passos Manuel and Galeria Nuno Centeno.
Galeria Nuno Centeno is honored to present the artist Mohammad Salemy, with a video installation titled The Burg of Babel 2017-2024.
Mohammad Salemy is a Canadian artist, critic and curator, based in Berlin, Germany.
After completing his BFA at Emily Carr University (Canada), he pursued a master degree in Critical Curatorial Studies from the University of British Columbia (United States of America). Since then, his work has been presented around the world, from Rotterdam – Witte de With to Eindhoven – Robot Love, in Beirut – Home Works 7 and at the Gwangju Biennale. He is an active contributor to magazines such as e-flux, Flash Art, Third Rail, Brooklyn Rail, Ocula, Arts of the Working Class, and Spike. He is also a member of the Alphabet Collection collective, cofounding organizer of The New Centre for Research & Practice, and an editor-in-chief of the publishing arm, Triple Ampersand (&&&).
About The Burg of Babel 2017-2024:
The hyperstitional smuggling of the lost Bruegel’s original sketch of his two versions of Tower of Babel paintings (normally housed in Vienna and Rotterdam), which were brought together in the artist’s retrospective at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, becomes the material form to contemplate the nature of collective general intelligence and its counterintuitive correlations with an expanded but flattened notion of computational time.
The opening of Burg of Babel 2017-2024 takes place on October 13th, 2025, 7pm at Galeria Nuno Centeno. Visits will take place during the week from 10am to 7pm until October 18th.
Galeria Nuno Centeno
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4000-037, Porto Portugal
