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Interferências imaginárias

Clear days are the best to hang clothes on the clothesline. Hanging a cabbage leaf, a fried egg, a cane, a nest, an artist's brush, a maple leaf, a pair of scissors, a glove is a magical domestic activity, and the ideal for this purpose is to stretch a rope from a side to side of the world. As for the clothespins, those clamping instruments, they are indispensable to arrest the fire of our passions.

2016, António Melo, Interferências imaginárias, Maus hábitos, Porto.

António Melo

António Melo (Arganil, 1964) lives and works in Coimbra. Plastic Arts/Painting Degree at ESBAP/FBAUP (1987). Master's and Ph.D in Art History, University of Lisbon Lusiada. Since 1985 he has exhibited individually and collectively in spaces in Porto such as Serralves Museum, EG gallery, Roma e Pavia gallery (now Pedro Oliveira), Canvas Gallery, Maus Hábitos and MCO gallery, having also shown work in locations such as Braga, Bologna, V. Nova de Cerveira, Chaves, Paris, Lyon, Badajoz, Alovera, Salamanca, Vigo, Warsaw, Palma de Mallorca, Vila da Feira, Felgueiras, Aveiro, Coimbra (Galeria Sete, Plastic Arts Circle and College of Arts of the University of Coimbra), Cascais and Lisbon (Monumental Gallery, ARTE LISBOA-Project Room). He has been performing since the early 1980s. Represented in the collections of the PLMJ and Ilídio Pinho Foundations, in the Norlinda and José Lima collections and in other private collections (Paris, Madrid, Los Angeles). He published the novels “O Coleccionador de Ninhos” in 2018, and “Disobedience of the Soul” in 2021.