Carla Filipe. Tomorrow there won't be any art

Tomorrow There Won’t Be Any Art continues Carla Filipe’s research into the visual and graphic strategies used in the political narrative. Through careful analysis and a recontextualization of the media used, specifically the protest banners, the project presents a set of symbols and graphic images taken from the post-25 April 1974 period, while removing all manual plasticity from them. Carla Filipe uses these images, superficially depoliticised or devoid of any political agency, in order to question the role of the artist in the current socio-political context. Deprived of individual protesting capacity and without the power of a collective body to support her, the artist issues the threat “Tomorrow there won’t be any art”. It is an attempt to mobilise people to react to the challenges faced by the artistic community.
Alongside the exhibition, Carla Filipe published a journal where she presents, in a non-hierarchical way, materials from different sources about the artists’ work conditions.