Ties That Bind - Exhibition in Porto
The exhibition Ties That Bind, featuring Ihar Hancharuk, Sasha Chaika, Angyvir Padilla, Jan Durina, Dev Dhunsi, Sheung Yiu and Donja Nasseri, will be showcased in Porto starting from May 15.
Focused on the 2024 FUTURES annual theme, Ties That Bind explores and challenges the networks of interdependence linking social, natural, and scientific structures.
The seven FUTURES artists were invited to embrace, challenge or rediscover various forms of attachments and connections within different social structures and relationships: from exploring intimate family bonds with Angyvir Padilla, to revealing an intricate web of relationships that are the result of human misconduct with Donja Nasseri; from interwoven ties where past meets the present in Dev Dhunsi’s work, to entanglement of biological and technological ecologies in Sheung Yiu research; while Jan Durina's work shows how hate-fueled rhetoric results in violent actions towards queer people, Ihar Hancharuk focuses on tensions and public paranoia that through images become palpable; finally, Sasha Chaika explore new ways of kinship that are not dependent on language.
As part of the FUTURES Meet-Up, the FUTURES community is invited to take part to a guided tour of the Ties That Bind exhibition, conducted by the Bienal'25 co-artistic directors, Jayne Dyer and Virgílio Ferreira, on June 7th at 5 PM.
The 2024 Open Call was curated by The Bienal Fotografia do Porto, Fotogalleriet, Fotograf Magazine and Organ Vida Festival.
Ties That Bind exhibition in porto is curated by Ci.CLO Plataforma, Organ Vida and Fotograf Zone.
Exhibition Run 15 May - 28 June 2025
At Casa Comun - Reitoria da Universidade do Porto (Porto, Portugal)
Credits image Dev Dhunsi
With the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.