The exhibition Double Void, by Paulo Catrica and Sebastiano Raimondo, featuring drawings by the architect Rui Mendes, opened in Lisbon at the Space Zero gallery, where it will run until 18 April.

As we mentioned earlier, this exhibition is the result of work carried out as part of the project ‘Filling a double void. A critical and mnemonic reading of the new town of Santo André 1971-2021’, funded by IN2PAST. The project focused on the history and memory of Vila Nova de Santo André, a new town built in the 1970s to support Sines’ industrial complex.

The gallery’s website states that the exhibition brings together ‘distinct languages and practices into a shared reflection’ and that amidst ‘designed projects, urban landscapes and fragments of memory, a sensitive field of relations between image, space and materiality begins to emerge’. The photographs explore the potential of the “unfinished”, invoking Walter Benjamin’s idea of “revolutionary pessimism”, ‘in order to challenge preconceived readings and reveal the critical significance of this territory’.