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
Luxury Activism: Art, Fashion & Capital
[This text was previously published by the author in Portuguese on Contemporânea Magazine — Ed.] I don’t want to work with fashion. Beauty must be preserved from capitalism. Fashion favours the escape into personal, private, selected, chosen space, as a form of false self-determination. Fashion reflects the fear of losing’ identity. — Thomas Hirschhorn The purposelessness… Read More »
Everything Was Actually Prepared: On Wolfgang Tillmans & the Illusion of Activism
If you don’t write against yourself you write nothing. The devil only has the importance we attribute to him. And my master is a swallow. -Christian Bobin I haven’t written to you, dear friend, for almost a year. Everywhere it seems that nothing works. Inequalities are increasing, neoliberal capitalism swallows democratic modes of government and… Read More »
On Minor Bestiary
In this text, Eduarda Neves elaborates and expands on the critique of the contemporary artworld that underpins her book Minor Bestiary: Time and Labyrinth in Contemporary Art, published in English by &&& Books, available for purchase through here. Minor Bestiary, my latest book, contributes to the debate about a few issues in contemporary art:… Read More »
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 »