endless sun: the cinematic sunrise, by hugo de almeida pinho

The sun is a medial element in our collective imagination, as a cultural form, a spiritual force, and with important ideological and biopolitical power. Its energy keeps the planet functioning, regulates the metabolic rhythms of plants and animals, and is part of a contemporary global capital of technological and economic power. As one of the most pressing issues in the current context of international geopolitics, energy can be used as a mechanism to promote certain forms of authoritarianism, neo-colonialism, autocratic systems, and climate crises.
Unfolding in two exhibitions – The Cinematic Sunrise (at gnration) and Capital Blindness (at Carpintarias de São Lázaro in Lisbon) – Endless Sun is an artistic research project on the relationship between technology with geological materiality and contemporary energy policies. Considering various links between the sun, earth, energy, and technology, this project reflects on the idea of solar capitalism, the constructive and destructive force of the sun that has shaped ideologies linked to capitalism, imperialism, and productivism.
At gnration, Endless Sun: The Cinematic Sunrise addresses the materialities and historical realities of the structures that define part of today’s technological culture and their relationship with geological and energy imaginaries and policies. Drawing on social, ecological, and political dimensions, this exhibition reflects on issues linked to the climate crisis, condemning forms of heliocentrism and geocentrism that develop processes of marginalisation, appropriation, and energetic and ecological colonialism.

Hugo de Almeida Pinho is an artist and researcher born in Ovar. He has a Master’s degree in Media Art from HfG Karlsruhe on a Gulbenkian scholarship. He has exhibited regularly since 2009 at venues such as ACUD (Berlin), Brotéria (Lisbon), CRIPTA 747 (Turin), DIDAC (Santiago de Compostela); Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Berlin); Appleton (Lisbon); and The Bermondsey Project (London).

circuito – serviço educativo braga media arts is organising a series of free guided tours of this exhibition on 26 oct, 23 nov and 7 dec.

curatorial project by paulo mendes
creation support direção-geral das artes / república portuguesa
production support
artworks production / residências no entulho
ronda da cotovia – associação cultural

galeria um is supported by EDIGMA and SABSEG Seguros

support portuguese republic – culture / directorate-general for the arts. rtcp – network of portuguese theatres and cinemas