RitaGT: Escola ao lado | School next Door:
Lesson nº1 – Learning with Golborne
22nd March - 3rd April 2018
You are cordially invited to the opening of the first solo show in London by Portuguese artist Rita GT.
On the first day, Thursday 22nd March, at 7pm, Rita GT will perform “I am an instrument”, with renowned blufunkmusician Keziah Jones. The programme on Friday and Saturday includes Art historian and writer Yvette Greslé, independent radical scholar, political analyst, curator and cultural critic George Shire and curator Ana Cristina Cachola. Please scroll down for the full exhibition programme.
VENUE: 50 Golborne gallery, 50 Golborne Road, London W10 5PR
PERFORMANCE: “I am an instrument” with blufunk musician Keziah Jones at 7:00PM sharp
website: http://www.50golborne-artdesign.com/
The School next door is laid out in the
gallery with purposely conceived flat-pack furniture made as a collaboration
between Rita GT, the architect Miguel Coutinho and the carpenters of the city
council of her hometown. It features a series of artworks that Rita GT created
for the site: photographs, ceramics, works on paper, and sound installations
-inspired by research, interviews and performances she executed during previous
residencies in this London neighbourhood.
Rita GT has drawn on the experience of the
Portuguese community that arrived in the Golborne Road in the 60s and early 70s
as a starting point for the artworks. That particular phase of immigration had
as a background the- often forgotten in other parts of Europe, including in the
UK- authoritarian, colonial Portuguese regime Estado Novo which was still
fighting against Angola in its War of Independence, and drafting young male
Portuguese civilians until its end only in 1974.
The School next door will open with three
days of ‘classes’ aiming to give equal voices to the moderators and
the audience in exchanging ideas and narratives about the area’s rich history of
diverse immigration, from the immediate post-war period to the present. The
artist will be an ubiquitous presence, as both artist and student, performing
and/or documenting them, and encouraging all voices to be heard. The material
gathered in the 50 Golborne Gallery will be the starting point for the next
Schools Next Door that will be launched in other capital cities in Europe and
Africa over the two next years.
About Rita GT
Rita GT was born in Porto in 1980; She
lives and works between Viana do Castelo in Portugal and Angola’s capital city of
Luanda. She received the Moving Africa scholarship in 2013 awarded by the Goethe
Institute through the Wits University (Johannesburg, South Africa), is the
founder of the e-studio Luanda project and was the selected commissioner of
Angola’s Pavilion in the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015. She has exhibited, among
others, at Gallery Belo-Galsterer, Lisbon (2017); Patch, Porto (2017); ICAF,
Lagos (2017); Efeito-Suruba, Lisbon (2017); KunstKraftWerk, Leipzig &
Freies Museum/Savvy Contemporary, Berlin (2015); Museu do Chiado, Lisbon
(2015/16); Instituto Camões, Luanda(2014); UNAP, Luanda (2012); Instituto Camões, Luanda (2014);
the Rothschild Prize, Lisbon (2007).
Gentileza: Rita GT y Golborne Gallery
