Main room of gallery space, Mudas Museum of Contemporary Art (Madeira, Portugal)
Portuguese artist Vitor Magalhães invited me to collaborate for his solo show «index of matters [on objects and other phantasmagoria]» at the gallery of the Mudas Museum of Contemporary Art in Madeira, Portugal. The exhibit opened the first week of December 2022 and runs through March 2023. The collaboration was an inspiring experience with many unexpected turns. Ultimately, I contributed a piece of fiction I wrote for an artist book designed by Vitor and presented as one of the works in the show. The experimental narrative, entitled «A Door that Doesn’t Close Properly», was developed over the course of several months in relation to elements in the exhibit and general conversations about concepts with Magalhães. A voice recording of the story was installed in one of the gallery rooms so that the sound would spill throughout the exhibit. The museum flew me and my family out for the opening, where Vitor and I enjoyed a public dialogue as part of the reception events. Despite last-minute date changes and a torrential rain storm, the exhibit opening had a nice turn-out, and the discussion during the public dialogue included some terrific exchanges. See video here:
«index of matters [on objects and other phantasmagoria]» (42:30)
(Vitor Magalhães and Peter Freund)
A separate collaborative show between the Barcelona-based Adversorecto collective and Vitor Magalhaes, «Adversorecto: Round One», is scheduled to open in late 2023 at the Mudas Museum of Contemporary Art gallery.