Exhibitionistas: Notes on Contemporary Art and Life
Oct 14, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
Can poetry provide clues to questions raised by contemporary art? Art sets the world in motion, sparks changes which we’re not always equipped to absorb, and even understand. Luís de Camões, the great…
Joana P. R. NevesHostIt was a poet that would have been important to the Portuguese regime at the time because this is the Renaissance epic poet, Luís de
Camões.
It's one of the first narratives of encounters of the navigators of the time,
the
proto-colonizers, the ones who would facilitate the colonization appropriation of land and goods in so many places of the planet by an epic poem called Muziyadash.
But let me first explain why I'm talking about this book in particular and why I'm talking about books and poetry in general.
Well, because this series, Poem Delivery Service, which will deliver to you one poem per episode once a month, stems from a sort of a frustrating feeling.
Sometimes when I'm recording these episodes or even when I'm writing, I think about specific poems in other languages than English.
And when I read the translation, that moment that I want to focus on or that specific verse or couple of verses that expresses the idea that I'm trying to convey, is not well translated.
And I mean not only in terms of vocabulary, but also the rhythm, the sound of the poem.
It's one of those short episodes between two other bigger, longer episodes about a specific topic or with a conversation around contemporary art.
This should be accessible to you, dear reader, if you don't speak these languages.
It was a poet that would have been important to the Portuguese regime at the time because this is the Renaissance epic poet, Luís de
Camões.
It's one of the first narratives of encounters of the navigators of the time,
the
proto-colonizers, the ones who would facilitate the colonization appropriation of land and goods in so many places of the planet by an epic poem called Muziyadash.
But let me first explain why I'm talking about this book in particular and why I'm talking about books and poetry in general.
Well, because this series, Poem Delivery Service, which will deliver to you one poem per episode once a month, stems from a sort of a frustrating feeling.
Sometimes when I'm recording these episodes or even when I'm writing, I think about specific poems in other languages than English.
And when I read the translation, that moment that I want to focus on or that specific verse or couple of verses that expresses the idea that I'm trying to convey, is not well translated.
And I mean not only in terms of vocabulary, but also the rhythm, the sound of the poem.
It's one of those short episodes between two other bigger, longer episodes about a specific topic or with a conversation around contemporary art.
This should be accessible to you, dear reader, if you don't speak these languages.
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