CultureLab researcher Nélio Conceição will take part in a conversation with artist Daniel Blaufuks in connection with the exhibition (Still) Waiting for Godot, showing at Galeria Vera Cortês until 16 May. The conversation will take place on the exhibition’s closing day, at 16:00, and will expand on the exhibition’s exploration of time, perception and waiting, reflecting on tensions between suspension and urgency, opacity and visibility, memory and gesture.

Borrowing its title from Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot, the exhibition unfolds as a meditation on absence, temporality and the lingering nature of images, moving between intimacy and history, observation and recollection. Extending beyond the gallery space, the project also includes an online viewing room that presents the works through a fragmented yet precise visual sequence, where “time lingers, accumulates, and resists resolution”.

In the curatorial text, Nélio Conceição writes: “Walking through the exhibition, we glimpse secret threads enhanced by the montage, we hear whispers, we welcome unspoken words, we imagine gazes that can no longer be seen: one of these gazes depicts a man in a waiting posture immortalized by the photographic cut; the other, ostensibly covered by a ribbon, speaks to us of the veil of time and the emptiness it leaves behind. An ambiguity sets in: in her pictorial beauty, is that woman a kind of Medusa tamed by the photographer’s artifices? Or is she an inert, cold body resting in a morgue? Another woman waits with her back turned, her gaze does not appease us, we are not the center of her desires. The sea is expectation and passage, but not every sea voyage is an adventure and an epic, not every wait is rewarded by a return.”

Further information about the exhibition, including the full text written by Nélio Conceição, is available on the Galeria Vera Cortês website.