Next Saturday, I will be talking with Eduarda Neves and Maria Coutinho at the launch of Contemporânea #7 (editorial director: Celina Brás; invited editor: Eduarda Neves), dedicated to Photography! This print issue has Eduarda Neves as guest editor and I had the pleasure to interview Musa paradisiaca about the project An Animal with a backpack. The magazine has four different covers with a selection of photographs of the Cheesy Photographs series by João Maria Gusmão and Pedro Paiva (2017).

“With no historiographical intention, the seventh print issue of Contemporânea puts forward an approach to photography that highlights both the structurally hybrid nature of the medium and the eclecticism of the territory which, after all, has always belonged to it. It is photography as a means with which, among other things, art is produced, as Susan Sontag lucidly argued, that we stress in this publication. From Benjamin's problematisation of photography as art to Sontag's art as photography, several artists have, since the 1960s–70s, developed a photographic writing that problematises the notions of art and work of art. By contaminating the prevailing purism of modernist heritage, photography (just like video) would become the instrument from which art would reflect upon itself” - Eduarda Neves.

Artists: António Júlio Duarte; Basma Alsharif; Daniel Blaufuks; Daniel Steegmann Mangrané; Dayanita Singh; Edson Chagas; Haris Epaminonda; José Maçãs de Carvalho; Luciana Fina; Mariana Silva; Musa paradisiaca; Willie Doherty; Zineb Sedira.

Visual essays: AnaMary Bilbao, Alice dos Reis, Jaime Welsh; Lúcia Prancha; João Tabarra, Tiago Madaleno.

Authors: Daniela Angelucci; David Santos; Eduarda Neves; Fernando José Pereira; Guilherme Blanc; Isabel Nogueira, Isabella Lenzi; João Enxuto + Erica Love; João Oliveira Duarte; José Marmeleira; Luís Lima; Mara Montanaro; Mohammad Salemy + Rômulo Moraes; Nuno Faleiro Rodrigues; Sofia Nunes; Susana Lourenço Marques; Susana Ventura.

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Presentation: Contemporânea #7 - Photography