The “Order of Things” exhibition brings together art, science and philosophy. It is at the National Museum of Natural History and Science, in Lisbon, until January 12th.
Salomé Nascimento is an artist and when she left Lisbon for Alentejo she realized the plastic waste that the move would cause. He took it and created a work that is now the centerpiece and starting point for an exhibition that crosses art, science and philosophy and is based on the book “The Strange Order of Things” by neuroscientist António Damásio.
“The book focuses on homeostasis, a concept from biology, but which expands to psychology and sociology. It is the regulatory principle that keeps us surviving, and this is common to a hyper complex human being or a unicellular being like an amoeba”, he explains to Todas As Artes.
To compose the exhibition, he invited three artists from three generations: João Filipe Bugalho, the Italian Silvia Pallini and the German Paulina Dornfeldt.
“Damasio makes us reflect on how everything comes from biology. And how the principle of homeostasis is a biological principle, but culture comes from this process of optimizing life. And how art, music, in short… are attempts to improvement of existence”, says Salomé Nascimento.
The “Order of Things” exhibition will run until January 12th at , in Lisbon. At the end there will be a performance with percussionist Iuri Oliveira.
