Eduarda Neves is a Professor of Contemporary Art, Art Theory and Critical Studies and an independent curator. She has published widely on contemporary art and visual culture and curated several exhibitions in Portugal and across Europe. For the two-year period 2019-2020, she has been a member of the Commission for the Acquisition of Contemporary Art for the Collection of the Portuguese State. Since 2019 she has been a regular contributor to art magazine CONTEMPORÂNEA.
Articles
Post Scriptum: Art After Ideology
In one of his well known essays, Art After Philosophy, (1) Joseph Kosuth presents several propositions regarding the function of art, arguing that it only has obligations to itself. He declares that, after Duchamp, the value of certain artists should “be weighed according to how much they questioned the nature of art; which is another way… Read More »
Not Cancelled! The Work of Art in the Age of Viral Propagation
Originally published in the online edition of Contemporânea Magazine. 1. Viral capital—Attachment to the ventilator A coronavirus claims its place in the world. In the world of contemporary art, too. To SARS-CoV-2, which brought forth Covid-19, we owe a certain program of metaphysical unveiling. Affected by our condition of hidden hosts, we are unaware of… Read More »