Conheci-a em Coimbra, nos finais dos anos setenta. Partilhámos percursos, tertúlias e amigos. Desde o Moçambique, ao Tropical, ao “Rápo-Táxo”, ao TEUC e outras cumplicidades, nomeadamente com o Cinema, a Psicologia, a Filosofia, já a Isabel, então estudante de Filosofia, irradiava inteligência, sensibilidade e irrequietude. Ontem, como hoje, o seu percurso ilustra a sua personalidade, contemporânea, artística e sensível.Depois de Veneza, Sidney, Sharjah, segue-se a Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.Parabéns e Felicidades, são votos que ficam bem e são mais que merecidos.
Ontem, como hoje, atento, solidário e admirador.
“Portuguese-born curator Isabel Carlos brings over 20 years experience to the 2009 Sharjah Biennial. After taking her degree in Philosophy at the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Coimbra, she gained a Masters qualification in Social Communication, with a thesis on performance art from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa.
Isabel served as Head Advisor to the Lisbon Exhibitions Department, during the city’s 1994 European Capital of Culture programme, before founding the Instituto de Arte Contemporanea in 1996, where she served as Deputy Director for five years. During this time, she organized the Portuguese delegations to the Venice, Istanbul, London and Sao Paulo Biennials, as well as curating the IAC’s international art collection.
Since leaving the IAC, after three years, Isabel Carlos has curated over twenty major exhibitions worldwide, working with group and solo shows, in and around Europe and further afield in the US and India. She has had many critical works published, including titles on Portuguese artists Helen Almeida and Alberto Carneiro, as well as theoretical essays in ‘On Reason And Emotion’ as artistic director and curator of Sydney Biennial (2004). She is also a respected international speaker and has participated in art conferences and discussion panels around the world.
For her role at the Sharjah Biennial 2009, Isabel Carlos is aiming to highlight themes relating to consumerism, urban growth and the politics of human happiness and aspirations. ‘The pursuit of happiness is an important motivation for humanity to dislocate itself from one place to another,’ she says. ‘In this dislocation, notions of utopia and future play a major role. This is a time in which the 9th Sharjah Biennial aims to propose a pause for reflection and provision storage for the future. Constructing the future depends on the sedimentation of the past and the present and art is a particularly clear case to which this principle applies."
http://www.sharjahbiennial.org/en/
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