“Не буває тираній, які б не намагалися обмежити мистецтво, бо вони бачать його силу. Тільки мистецтво передає почуття.”
- Володимир Зеленський, Президент України
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Hüseyin Bahri Alptekin
Cidade, which is Portuguese for “city”, is a neon text work that uses the poem Cidade City Cité written in 1958 by the Brazilian concrete poet Augusto de Campos. As in the original poem, the text comprises a single sentence in Portuguese with all the spaces between words removed. The work looks to reflect the non-translatability of experiencing a different place, yet foregrounds the language itself in the vivid representational form of neon text.
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