Join us, next Saturday the 10th, from 4pm, for the opening of the exhibition Boi Preso by Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves. The sound is by Garcia da Selva.

The ox now seems to be always trapped: in the butcher's shop, in the refrigerating chamber, in the slaughterhouse, captured by the state of things, one of the pieces of the contemporary life of insane consumption.
For the butcher's shop, which is now the Ocupa Gallery, we wanted to remember the oxen, the cows, the aurochs, and their representations, from folk art to the oldest inscriptions. We returned to the Côa valley and stopped again in front of the rocks, tilting our necks since it’s with a grazing light that the engravings are best seen.
In Ocupa, inside the coldest place - the refrigerating chamber - we invoke fire. We invoke the traditional art of fireworks. Our childhood memories help us, of the nightly fireworks of the Minho summer festivals.
Ancient and popular, the occasion evokes the power of the animal, in counterpoint with the place of the butcher's shop. The ox dances, it is celebrated live.
It was a serious party. Sometimes it was even scary, it seemed that everything was going to burst.

Daniel Moreira e Rita Castro Neves live and work between Porto and the Beira Alta region. Daniel Moreira holds a BA in Architecture, starting in 2000 a multidisciplinary path between architecture and fine art. Rita Castro Neves, after finishing her photography training at the Lisbon’s Ar.Co School of Visual Arts and the Master in Fine Art at the Slade School of Art in London, has been exhibiting regularly, teaching and curating.
With separate artistic paths the duo started collaborating in 2015 with Laking, following an invitation by the Finish art space Oksasenkatu 11, and initiating a long project on the representation of landscape, using drawing, photography and video – in installation, to think about artistic collaboration, different techniques and artistic cultures, territory, scale and journey.
Since then Rita and Daniel have been exhibiting extensively in solo and group shows, as well as working in the context of artistic residencies. In 2020 the duo finished the renovation project of the Escola de Macieira, a former elementary school of the Portuguese dictatorial Plano dos Centenários, in the Serra de São Macário, in Beira Alta, where they have started a project on mountain culture, nature and the rural, ecology, biopolitics and environmental preservation.

BOI PRESO

Garcia Da Selva - TORVADER - 07 DANSKE COOP

Garcia Da Selva - TORVADER - 06 ESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇO

Garcia Da Selva - TORVADER - 10 A ESPADA E A ROSA

Garcia Da Selva - TORVADER - 09 HIPERDROMO

Garcia Da Selva - TORVADER - 12 ALBATROX

Garcia Da Selva - TORVADER - 13 FROM THE FIRST MINUTE 2

Garcia Da Selva - TORVADER - 11 CÉLINE PENDERGAST

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 03 ~ JAWOHL

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 02 ~ NESTING FAR FROM PREDATORS

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 01 ~AXIS VENTURA

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 05 ~ SUKATA CITY

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 07 ~ CÓDIGO DEMÉTRIO

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 08 ~ CHIAPAS

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 06 ~ THE PHARMACIST

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 04 ~REKOLONIZE (MUNCHEN RMX)

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 13 ~ AVENTEZLA

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 12 ~ UZBEKS

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 09 ~UNTITLED GUERREIRO KONAMI

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 11 ~ VULNERABLE KARMINSKI

Garcia Da Selva - ~ LOBOTRONIKA # 1 EP - 10 ~ WINTER RETNIEW

... ‎(LP) - Doubledog Recordings 
... (Cassete) - Urubu Tapes 

... Junho de 2017
credits
releases June 24, 2017 

... com as vozes de Garcia da Selva & Mafalda Santos 
(Dad Fbe, Madeixa, Höfner) e de Ema Lobo (Madeixa) 

... Madeixa é uma música original de Norman (Madeixa da Gueixa) 


... gravado no Moinho da Fonte Santa 
www.moinhodafontesanta.com 
por Garcia da Selva (Manuel Mesquita) 

... masterizado no Estúdio Golden Pony em Lisboa por Eduardo 
Vinhas 


... uma edição em vinil Doubledog Recordings, numerada e assinada 
(300 exemplares), com capa serigrafada na Oficina Arara a partir 
duma obra da artista Mafalda Santos 
mafaldasantos.pt 
www.oficina-arara.org 

... editada em cassete (100 exemplares) pela Urubu Tapes. 
urubutapes.bandcamp.com 

...obrigado Mafalda Santos, Pedro Magalhães, Tiago Machado 

06.2017

PAPA-FIGOS

HÖFNER

MADEIXA

RUDERALIS

PANTUFAS DE ESTREMOZ

DAD FBE

DEADWOOD

OGONGO

Manuel Mesquita, active since the mid-90s, sabotaging the rules just enough to remain unreadable. 💾

Garcia da Selva

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