...E O PERÚ FUGIU [2025]
CENTRO CULTURAL CARPINTARIAS DE SÃO LÁZARO [Lisbon, Portugal]
Curated by Inês Valle
ATELIER CONTENCIOSO - ANA VELEZ - ANDREW ESIEBO - ÂNGELA FERREIRA - CARLA CABANAS - CARLOS NORONHA FEIO - FÁBIO COLAÇO - FERNANDO J. RIBEIRO - FRANCISCA R. GONÇALVES - GRAEME WILLIAMS - JOANA GOMES - MANUEL SANTOS MAIA - MARCELO BRODSKY - MARIA SASSETTI - MÓNICA CALLE - NUNO NUNES-FERREIRA - RUI MACEDO - TURMA 4A - ZIAD NAITADDI
“…e o perú fugiu!”, a collective exhibition curated by Inês Valle, unfolding as a reflection on freedom - its meanings, fragilities, and infinite possibilities. Bringing together artists from diverse geographies - Portugal, Morocco, Argentina, South Africa and Mozambique - this exhibition weaves multiple voices and artistic languages to explore freedom not as a fixed idea but as a living, shifting condition shaped by history, memory, and desire.
In a country marked by the revolutionary April of 1974 and the symbolic blossoming of its democracy, “…e o perú fugiu!” takes the legacy of the Carnation Revolution as a starting point - opening up broader conversations about freedom in the present moment. Here, freedom emerges not only as resistance to oppression, but as a poetic space for imagination, an intimate gesture, an act of care, or a shared horizon still in the making.
This exhibition invites visitors to move through stories of emancipation and struggle, migration and belonging, of silence and voice - narratives that resonate far beyond Portugal’s borders, echoing urgent debates across the world about the right to exist, to move, to speak, and to create. Above all, “…e o perú fugiu!” is an invitation to pause - to question what it means to be free today. How do we care for freedom, protect it, and reinvent it - for ourselves, and one another?
Inês Valle
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This exhibition is part of the 2023–2026 Cera Project’s program, Territories, Resistance, Freedom. It is presented in partnership with Atelier Contencioso and the Centro Cultural Carpintarias de São Lázaro, and with the support of Vasco Collection, Viarco Fábrica Portuguesa de Lápis and Comissão Comemorativa 50 anos 25 de Abril.
