#CutDownTheMiddle #JoãoVascoPaiva, #HemanChong, #RamiroGuerreiro, #KoSinTung, #MagdalenWong Curated by #ClaudiaPestana in dialogue with João Vasco Paiva Cut Down The Middle gathers a selection of recent works by João Vasco Paiva with pieces by Heman Chong, Ramiro Guerreiro, Ko Sin Tung and Magdalen Wong, artists with whom Paiva has exhibited, worked, shared space or been in conversation with over the past decade. #MAKEYOUROWNPUBLICLIBRARY! (2020) challenges what art can do, where it circulates, through whom, and how. As posters covering an entire wall, it brings a form of outdoor graphic communication into an interior gallery space. Downloadable for free as a PDF on the GML website, it is a digital work anyone can collect and choose to actualise. As a sentence, it initially reads like a clear request. Yet, when considered more closely, questions emerge about what constitutes a library or how something can be made public. Whether an experience, a digital file, or an imperative sentence, this work asks us to confront our understanding of how an artwork operates and our role in making it work. (at Galerias Municipais de Lisboa) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNkZTFPlX_G/?igshid=o07d86iv7zil
