rangefinder, imagens entrecruzadas — josé quaresma and tiago batista exhibition

06TH MARCH > 06TH APRIL 2025 I MNAC

José Quaresma and Tiago Batista interconnect their languages and plastic domains using two intersecting image production mechanisms: Carlos Relvas’ Stereoscope and the Rangefinder. Both devices form two confluent images, although with different degrees of reciprocity and overlap. The former is associated with the design of the pieces and the latter, like a focusing device, with the convergence of exhibition themes. Digital and analogue drawing, painting, installation and video test a continuous interaction of the communicative power of the discourse of both artists.

The exhibition’s introductory piece, which reconfigures in a contemporary format the self-portrait, as a drowned man, of one of the inventors of photography, Hippolyte Bayard (who seems to have been the first photographer to pose in front of his own camera and take a selfie), begins a body of pieces that, in an articulated way, combine drawing with light and images that cross over each other.

Lúcia Saldanha

organização . organization Museu Nacional de Arte Contemporânea

parceria [PeP] . partnership [PeP] MNAC / Quarteirão das Artes curadoria .

curatorship Lúcia Saldanha

artistas . artists José Quaresma / Tiago Batista

apoio à montagem . installation support Alberto Gomes / Amadeu Farinha / António Aguiar / Paulo Lourenço

design gráfico . graphic design Isabel Lopes de Castro

comunicação . communication Isabel Nunes / Mónica Fonseca / Teresa Sabido

serviço educativo education Hilda Frias