16mm film transferred to 2K 5’30’', color, sound
Palomacia is a short film, made from the filming of two white doves in spatial relation with two mirrors, in games of multiplication, flights, wing flapping and details of their physiognomy. In voice-over we hear a text by philosopher Michael Marder, read by himself. This text, which was re-recorded for this film is a fragment of the lecture Plant Diplomacy, or on the Vegetal Fold Marder held at CAC: Centre of Art and Creativity (Torres Vedras, PT) in February 2022. The lecture revolved around the relations of diplomacy in plants and the idea of the fold as a primordial space for the exercise of diplomacy. The film proposes a metamorphosis between the appearance of white doves, symbols of peace, with their movement of wings folding in on themselves, and the descriptions of the behaviour of plants as mediators of ecosystems.
Mariana Caló (Viana do Castelo, 1984) and Francisco Queimadela (Coimbra, 1985) studied Painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto and have been working as a duo since 2010. Calouste Gulbenkian Scholars in 2012 for an artistic residency at Gasworks, London and Scholars of General Directorate for the Arts (DGArtes) / INOV-Art program, which they developed in Berlin, where they were based between 2008 and 2012.
Distinguished with the BES Revelation Award (Serralves Foundation / Banco Espírito Santo, Lisbon / Porto) in 2012 and Winners of the International Schermo dell’arte Film Festival award in 2013. Finalists of the EDP Novos Artistas Award (EDP Foundation, Porto) in 2013. Winners of the first edition of the Paulo Cunha e Silva Prize in 2018. In 2021 they participated in the 34th Bienal de São Paulo.