Ana Aragão and Gonçalo M. Tavares on show from 25th May

The exhibition results from a co-production by Casa da Arquitectura and Atelier Ana Aragão and aims to open up a route of readings between the drawings that interpret the city, by Ana Aragão, and the unpublished stories that the maps tell about the urban space from the pen of Gonçalo M. Tavares.

According to the curatorial text, "From the drawing of the map come the same lines that draw the city, the house and then the body. The line that writes is also the same. This is the journey of the line proposed by two creators, Ana Aragão, in drawing, Gonçalo M. Tavares, in writing. Text within drawing, drawing within text. Maps are ideas, words, drawings, lines placed in a space. But a map is not only a representation of the square metre and the vast world, but also a cartography of pain and contentment, of mishaps and almost sublime moments. Everything can be mapped. Tragedies can be mapped, and so can joys. Everything can end up on a map and the map can initiate everything that is announced on it. The maps of cities, the maps of ideas and of the body - the anatomy that becomes a city through the old zoom of attention, in short, everything - from the smallest to the gigantic - can gain visual and literary space with the joint work of the two authors."

The exhibition opened with a talk on the subject "House, City and Texts" on 25 May, starting at 5pm, at the Álvaro Siza Space, with the participation of Ana Aragão, Gonçalo M. Tavares, Pedro Mexia, Camilo Rebelo and Mariana Sendas (mod.)


Biographies

Ana Aragão
Porto, 1984
Ana Aragão graduated as an architect from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP, 2009), where she joined the teaching team as a tutor. With an FCT scholarship, she studied for a PhD at the Department of Architecture at the University of Coimbra (2011-2014, not completed).

Some of her recent projects include the exhibitions "My Plan for Japan" (2023, Hillside Forum, Tokyo), "No Plan for Japan" (2021, Museu do Oriente, Lisbon), "Vertical Reclamation of Individual Spaces" (2018, Fundação do Oriente, Macau),
as well as participating as a guest artist in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2021 and in the Portuguese representation (Homeland) at the 2014 edition of the Venice Biennale. having been named by Luerzer's Archive as one of the "200 Best Illustrators Worldwide"
(2014), she has developed collaborations with the Centro Cultural de Belém, Casa da Memória de Guimarães, among others. Ana Aragão currently devotes herself exclusively to drawing, exploring the theme of urban imagery and architecture on paper. Her hand-drawn interpretation of the urban world brings together the realms of architecture and detail. She has run her own studio in Porto since 2012.